Mountains

  • Mountains
    Mountains
    By Anna Claybourne

    Everything you need to know about mountains.

  • Mountains
    Mountains
    By Susan Heinrichs Gray

    Describes the characteristics of mountainous areas and the plants and animals that inhabit them.

  • Mountains
    Mountains
    By Clive Catchpole

    Describes the severe weather conditions characteristic of high mountain regions, and discusses the hardy animals such as the ptarmigan, chinchilla, llama, and grizzly bear, that live in mountainous areas.

  • Mountains
    Mountains
    By Seymour Simon

    Introduces various mountain ranges, how they are formed and shaped, and how they affect vegetation and animals, including humans.

  • Mountains: Epic Cycling Climbs
    Mountains: Epic Cycling Climbs
    By Michael Blann

    A photographic paean to the most beautiful peaks and grueling cycling climbs, for the growing audience of hardcore cycling tourists

  • Mountains: A Very Short Introduction
    Mountains: A Very Short Introduction
    By Martin F. Price

    In this Very Short Introduction, Martin Price addresses the role of mountains in global ecosystems and within human culture.

  • Mountains: Beyond the Clouds
    Mountains: Beyond the Clouds
    By Tim Hall

    Climbing mountains or just gazing at their majestic splendor causes us to slow down and contemplate, maybe even giving us a little serenity. Photographer Tim Hall beautifully captures the powerful solace of mountains in his images.

  • Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge
    Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge
    By Ellen Wiegandt

    The volume will be a boon to a range of readers, from environmental scientists to hydrologists. This book addresses the major challenges in assuring globally sustainable water use.

  • Mountains: Physical, Human-Environmental, and Sociocultural Dynamics
    Mountains: Physical, Human-Environmental, and Sociocultural Dynamics
    By Mark A. Fonstad

    Charcoal accumulation rates (black bars), background CHAR (weighted average of the CHAR data, smooth gray line), and charcoal peaks ... CHAR increased at most sites over the last 7,000 years, suggesting increased biomass burned on ...

  • Mountains
    Mountains
    By Graham Park

    These are much lower, with a generally gentler relief, worn down through millennia of erosion.The presently active mountain belts are arranged in three separate systems: the Alpine-Himalayan ranges, the circum-Pacific belt and the mid-ocean ...

  • Mountains
    Mountains
    By Peter Aleshire

    These strange, squeezed up formations often shattered under their own weight. ... Coincidentally, the study of that fractured crust on the seafloor played a key role in the development of the theory of plate tectonics, which is perhaps ...

  • Mountains
    Mountains
    By Chris Oxlade

    In all, mountains cover about onequarter of the world's land (not ocean) surface. Many volcanoes are also thought of as mountains. Meet a real-life mountain explorer on pages 34–35. Amazing facts The Himalayas contain the highest ...

  • Mountains: Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives
    Mountains: Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives
    By James Fargo Balliett

    This book shows how mountains are characterized by their distinctive geological, ecological, and biological conditions. Often, they are so large that they create their own weather patterns.

  • Mountains
    Mountains
    By Jen Green

    Provides an overview of the physical and environmental features of the world's many majestic mountain ranges.

  • Mountains: The Giants of Nature
    Mountains: The Giants of Nature
    By Skira

    Dealing with the most famous peaks on the planet, divided into the various continents, the book presents, among others, the peaks of the Himalayas and the Karakorum, which form "the roof of the world".

  • Mountains
    By Neil Stronach

    Endangered People And Places. In Mountains you'll learn more about these endangered people and places and what can be done to preserve them.

  • Mountains: Surviving on Mt. Everest
    Mountains: Surviving on Mt. Everest
    By Michael Sandler

    Journey to the top of the world in this exciting story of adventure and danger.

  • Mountains: Physical, Human-Environmental, and Sociocultural Dynamics
    Mountains: Physical, Human-Environmental, and Sociocultural Dynamics
    By Mark A. Fonstad

    ... Late Cenozoic Drainage History of the Southwestern Great Basin and Lower Colorado River Region, ed. M. Reheis, 8. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005–1404, United States Geological Survey, Washington, DC. Morrison, R. B. 1991 ...

  • Mountains: Over Australia's Blue Horizon
    Mountains: Over Australia's Blue Horizon
    By Alasdair McGregor, Greg Mortimer

    On Australia's mountains, the great sagas of the earth from its earliest days are inscribed for those who care to look closely.

  • Mountains: Masterworks of the Living Earth
    Mountains: Masterworks of the Living Earth
    By Kevin Kling, Paul Tapponnier

    From the Himalayas and the Andes to the little-known Altays of Central Asia, mountains are objects of admiration, awe and legend. Mountains: Wonders of the Natural World tours the world's...