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  • Essays from the Edge

    Fifty years of mountain writing

    by Dennis Gray ...
    Essays from the Edge gathers fifty years of selected writing by Dennis Gray, one of British climbing's most influential voices. These twenty-one essays, spanning one of British mountaineering's most exciting periods, provide a compelling narrative of a life studying the art of climbing and of living it first-hand on the cliffs and mountains of the world in the company of some of the sport's most ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Plant Development and Biotechnology

    Edited by Robert N. Trigiano, Dennis J. Gray ...
    Biotechnology revolutionized traditional plant breeding programs. This rapid change produced new discussions on techniques and opportunities for commerce, as well as a fear of the unknown. Plant Development and Biotechnology addresses the major issues of the field, with chapters on broad topics written by specialists. The book applies an informal s ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD

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    Route 66 Audio Collection, The

    America's Main Street

    by Jimmy Gray, Joe Loesch ...
    Narrated by Joe Loesch, Dennis Stone, John Sherberg, Don King ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 6 min

    America's Main StreetAuthor - Jimmy GrayNarrator - Dennis StoneTime - 61:43:00For three generations of travelers, Route 66 was the highway that linked America together. It was The Mother Road and there was never another like it. Hear the stories of the tourists, the Okies, the wartime GI's, the people who ran the tourist courts and cafe's... the famous and infamous.Roadside MarvelsAuthor - Jimmy ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Civil War Collection, The

    The Complete Story of America's Epic Struggle

    by Jimmy Gray ...
    Narrated by Dennis Stone, Joe Loesch ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 5 min

    Entrenched in a conflict over slave labor, the industrialized North and slave-powered South of the mid 1800's became entangled in the only war to be waged between Americans on U.S. soil. The Civil War, infamously known as the bloodiest military conflict to date, engaged three million Americans, claiming the lives of over half a million.The long march from secession to Southern Reconstruction comes ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Everest

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    by Jane Urquhart ...
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    A hill walker's journey to the top of the world

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  • The Ogre

    Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent

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  • Last Hours on Everest

    The gripping story of Mallory and Irvine’s fatal ascent

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    An expert mountaineer cracks Everest’s most intriguing mystery – did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit before they perished on its slopes?On the 6th June 1924, mountaineers George Mallory and Sandy Irvine perished in their attempt to reach the summit of Everest.Obsessed by uncovering what happened, in 1993 Graham Hoyland became the 15th Englishman to climb Everest. His investigations led to the ... Read more

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