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Title: To the Top: The Story of Everest by Stephen Venables ISBN: 0-7636-2115-3 Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA) Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent and informative.
Comment: The informative, but easy and readable style of this book will allow for many people to actually enjoy reading non-fiction about something they might have been required to study. The sections on how physically demanding the trek to Everest is were interesting. Amid all the IMAX films and articles, I'd forgotten what an amazing feat of the human body this is. It's very historical too, and hearing about the forgotten people who came before Sir Edmund Hillary was a treat. Coming from someone who has hiked up Everest himself, it makes the book all the more rewarding and fascinating. The author has been in all of these frozen, dangerous places! Excellent and informative.
Rating: 1
Summary: Is this really a good climbing intro for kids?
Comment: This book does a fair job of providing the standard well-worn yarns from Everest's past. However, should children be getting their introduction to this splendid mountain by someone who has literally built a career out of wrecking other's expeditions by constantly having to get rescued, first on Everest, then on a lesser known Himalayan peak? As other reviewers of Stephen Venables' numerous books have pointed out, it doesn't seem fitting to be rewarding someone who is always messing up on the mountains with yet new book contracts to pound his chest in public. Do we want to teach our kids a climbing ethic of recklessness, poor planning, and bragging? I think mountains, and especially Everest, have better lessons for the young--and climbing greats like Hillary or John Hunt have plenty of good books to serve this purpose.
Rating: 5
Summary: Everest by Steven Venables
Comment: The work depicts many color prints of Mount Everest. It shows the
Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, a View from the Top,
Artifacts for the 1953 Mt. Everest Expedition and a Portrait
of a Tibetan mother and child. There is an interesting
Buddhist monk wearing a yak headdress. The presentation
contains some historical data on Sir George Everest and
pictures of various expedition forces in process of
climbing the famous mountain. This book is a worthy purchase
as a gift for a child or senior citizen.
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Title: In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America's Bill of Rights by Russell Freedman ISBN: 0823415856 Publisher: Holiday House Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Sea Turtles: Ocean Nomads by Mary M. Cerullo, Jeffrey L. Rotman ISBN: 0525466495 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Milkweed: A Novel by Jerry Spinelli ISBN: 0375813748 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Granny Torrelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech ISBN: 0060292903 Publisher: Joanna Cotler Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Sword of the Rightful King: A Novel of King Arthur by Jane Yolen ISBN: 0152025278 Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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