[PDF.07pf] The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier

The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier

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 | #428160 in Books |  Barcott, Bruce |  2007-04-10 |  2007-04-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.60 x5.50l,.73 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Hiking the Cascade Mountains.|By Jean|Southeast of Mr. Ranier is what is now named William O. Douglas National Forest. Reading this memoir makes you feel as if you were hiking along with Douglas. You know the paths, the terrain, the flora and fauna, and the unpredictable weather. He began to hike to overcome a childhood infirmity, but continued after he found compaionable seren|.com |Mount Rainier, North America's biggest volcano, looms over Seattle like an invitation to... adventure? Disaster? Discovery? It's all of the above for Bruce Barcott, a Seattle writer who captures the mountain from multiple angles in this luminous biograph

In The Measure of a Mountain, Seattle writer Bruce Barcott sets out to know Rainier. His method is exploratory, meandering, personal. He begins by encircling it, first by car then on foot. He finds that the mountain is a complex of moss-bearded hemlocks and old-growth firs, high meadows that blossom according to a precise natural timeclock, sheets of crumbling pumice, fractured glaciers, and unsteady magma. Its snow fields bristle with bug life, and its marmots chew rock...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier   |  Bruce Barcott. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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