Mountains In Bolivia
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Mountains In Bolivia
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Author : Fred Hendel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Mountains In Bolivia written by Fred Hendel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Travel categories.
Bolivia
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Author : Yossi Brain
language : en
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Release Date : 1998-12-31
Bolivia written by Yossi Brain and has been published by The Mountaineers Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12-31 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The only English-language climbing guide available to Bolivia's mountains, this is also the first to cover all four of its ranges. Major and alternative routes on 37 peaks are thoroughly described and are accompanied by clear topographic maps and photographs. Includes a short history of climbing in Bolivia.
Across The Andes
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Author : Charles Johnson Post
language : en
Publisher: NEW YORK OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
Release Date : 2015-04-02
Across The Andes written by Charles Johnson Post and has been published by NEW YORK OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-02 with categories.
Example in this ebook CHAPTER I OLD PANAMA, AGAMEMNON, AND THE GENIAL PICAROON It was in Panama—the old Panama—and in front of the faded and blistered hotel that I met him again. A bare-footed, soft-voiced mozo had announced that a person, a somebody, was awaiting me below. Down in the broken-tiled lobby a soured, saffron clerk pointed scornfully to the outside. Silhouetted against the hot shimmer that boiled up from the street was a jaunty figure in a native, flapping muslin jacket, native rope-soled shoes, and dungaree breeches, carefully rolling a cigarette from a little bag of army Durham. It turned and, from beneath the frayed brim of a native hat, there beamed upon me the genial assurance of Bert, one time of the Fifth Army Corps, Santiago de Cuba, and occasionally of New York; and within my heart I rejoiced. Without, I made a signal that secured a bottle of green, bilious, luke-warm native beer and settled myself placidly for entertainment. A panicky quarantine stretched up and down some few thousand miles of the West Coast that left the steamer schedules a straggling chaos. For fifteen dull, broiling days I had swapped hopes and rumors with the polyglot steamship clerk or hung idly over the balcony of the Hotel Marina watching the buzzards hopping about the mud flats or grouped hopefully under the quarter of a slimy smack. Once I had inspected the Colombian navy that happened to be lying off the Boca and observed a bran-new pair of white flannels go to their ruin as a drunken Scotch engineer teetered down an iron ladder with a lidless coal-oil lamp waving in discursive gestures; once I had met a mild, dull, person who had just come up Magdalena River way with a chunk of gold that he assured me—without detail—had been hacked off by a machete, but here his feeble imagination flickered out and he wrapped the rest in a poorly wrought mystery until finally he fluttered over to Colon for the next steamer of innocent possibilities. With these the respectable amusements were exhausted and I therefore rejoiced as I confronted that cheerful, raconteuring adventurer under the battered Panama. A ship’s purser, a drummer of smoked hams, a Coney Island barker, a soldier, a drifter, and always a teller of tales, he had lain in the trenches on Misery Hill before Santiago in support of Capron’s Battery with a gaunt group around him as he wove the drifting thread of adventure from the Bowery to the Barbary Coast in a series of robust anecdotes. And they bore the earmarks of truth. Now, in the genial silhouette framed against the tropic glare, I realized that whatever days of waiting might be in store they would no longer be dull. A true rumor had put him in a lone commercial venture somewhere down these coasts and here at my elbow was to be placed all the shift and coil of petty adventure, whimsical romance, and the ultimate results of two years of adroit piracy in and out of the Spanish Main that had ended, as I observed, in dungaree breeches, rope-soled alpargatas, and a battered Panama hat. Therefore through the ministrations of an occasional bottle of the native bilious beer and other transactions that shall remain private, the days sped themselves swiftly and unheeded guided by the adept hand of Romance. Again, as in the trenches, I viewed the world under Asmodean influences, but what I heard has no place in these pages; it is worth an endeavor all its own. Then, one morning, the news spread that at last the Mapocho lay at the Boca and the hour of departure for the first stage to the interior of South America was at hand; the night before was the last I saw of my genial friend. In the morning he did not appear, and it was strange, for I had expected to do the proper thing, as I saw it, realizing that dungarees and alpargatas are poor armor and that our consulates offer but a desperate and prickly hospitality. To be continue in this ebook
Bolivia Between Villages And Mountains
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Author : Alain Mesili
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Bolivia Between Villages And Mountains written by Alain Mesili and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Gathering Sheaves
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Author : Elvira Firestone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 196?
Gathering Sheaves written by Elvira Firestone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 196? with Missions categories.
Andes Mountains In Bolivia Journal
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Author : Cool Image
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-07-16
Andes Mountains In Bolivia Journal written by Cool Image and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-16 with categories.
A life worth living is worth recording, and what better place than this journal? These lined pages crave your scribbled notes, thoughts, ideas, experiences, and notions. Fill the lines, remember your life, don't lose your ideas, and keep reaching higher to live the best life you can. It all starts here, folks, but you'll need your own pen or pencil. Write on!
The Mountain That Eats Men
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Author : Ander Izagirre
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2019-04-15
The Mountain That Eats Men written by Ander Izagirre and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-15 with Travel categories.
From the 16th century, the mines of Potosí, perched high in the Andes, bankrolled the Spanish empire. During those years immense wealth allowed the city to grow larger than London at the time and the mountain was quickly given the epithet Cerro Rico – the 'rich mountain'. But today, Potosí’s inhabitants are some of the poorest in South America while the mountain itself has been so greedily plundered that its summit is on the verge of collapsing. So many people have died in the mines that the Cerro Rico is now called the 'mountain that eats men’. In this captivating, moving tale of harrowing bravery and wistful beauty Ander Izagirre tells the story of the mountain and those who risk their lives in its shadow through the eyes of Alicia – a 14-year-old girl working in the dark, dangerous mines to support her family. Through her eyes we can come to know the story of postcolonial Bolivia.
A Search For The Apex Of America
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Author : Annie Smith Peck
language : en
Publisher: Dodd
Release Date : 1911
A Search For The Apex Of America written by Annie Smith Peck and has been published by Dodd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with Bolivia categories.
From Mountains To Morales Stories Of Bolivia
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Author : Jerome Stewart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-01-26
From Mountains To Morales Stories Of Bolivia written by Jerome Stewart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-26 with categories.
From Mountains to Morales-Stories of Bolivia reflects a love of Bolivia, its diverse culture, geology and ecology. Drawing on the author's Peace Corps experience, it highlights some of the places and rituals that distinguish this landlocked Andean nation. This is also a contemplation of the country's history as viewed through the lens of a small sampling of Bolivians. These include Humbertó del Rosario Torres Ortíz, the grandfather of the author's wife, and the former comandante general of the Bolivian Armed Forces, who played a principal role defining the country's contemporary history-from the Chaco War pitting Bolivia against Paraguay in the 1930s, to the Bolivian Agrarian Revolution of 1952, to the arrival of Evo Morales.
I Am Rich Potos
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Author : Stephen Ferry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
I Am Rich Potos written by Stephen Ferry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Architecture categories.
The magnificent mountain of Potosiacute; in Bolivia yielded more silver than any other mountain or region of the world. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries this wealth flowed through Spain into Europe and played an important role in the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution and trade with Asia. Yet the grueling work of extracting the silver was left to the indigenous population of the Andes, who were enslaved by the Spanish and died by the thousands on the mountain. Today, Potosiacute; maintains this unique culture, based on its epic history. Approximately eighteen thousand miners still work in or around the mountain, searching for trace amounts of silver and tin. Inside the mountain, miners worship their devil, who is represented as a sexually potent Spaniard, lord of the mineral realm. Photographer Stephen Ferry has made many trips to Potosiacute; to document this ongoing drama. His color images describe this world, which echoes back to the birth of modern Europe yet is one of the poorest places in the Americas. The text by Eduardo Galeano illuminates the complexity of the intersection of ancient rituals and the grandeur of the mountain and complements Ferry's powerful portrait of this fascinating area. Ferry's photographs are divided into four sections: the miners' carnival; work that still takes place in and around the rich mountain; major institutions of civic life in the city of Potosiacute;; and the festival of Esprit?, in which miners sacrifice llamas to the devil within the mountain to appease his thirst for blood so that he will not take their lives with accidents or illness.