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  • The Magician's Glass

    Character and fate: eight essays on climbing and the mountain life

    by Ed Douglas ...
    'How much risk is worth taking for so beautiful a prize?'The Magician's Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing.In the title essay, he writes about failure on Annapurna III in 1981, one of the boldest attempts in Himalayan mountaineering on one of the most beautiful lines – ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Himalaya

    A Human History

    by Ed Douglas ...
    A magisterial history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures, and adventures among the world’s highest mountains.For centuries, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adventurers, and mountaineers seeking to test themselves among the world’s most spectacular and challenging peaks. But far from ... Read more

    $25.89 CAD

  • Statement

    The Ben Moon Story

    by Ed Douglas ...
    On 14 June 1990, at Raven Tor in the Derbyshire Peak District, twenty-four-year-old Ben Moon squeezed his feet into a pair of rock shoes, tied in to his rope, chalked his fingers and pulled on to the wickedly overhanging, zebra-striped wall of limestone. Two minutes later he had made rock-climbing history with the first ascent of Hubble, now widely recognised as the world's first F9a. Born in the ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 25 Truths

    Life Principles of the Happiest & Most Successful Among Us

    by Ed Douglas ...
    25 Truths is a motivational and inspirational guide built around Christian principles about living life to its fullest potential. This book is about what is important in life, such as character and values, dealing with others, faith, family, mental and physical health, happiness, making a difference in the world and other practical life principles practices by successful individuals.Each truth is ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • House of Snow

    An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal

    Edited by Ellen Parnavelas ...
    A ground-breaking collection of stories, poems and articles about Nepal covering the length and breadth of this enchanting nation and its people.'If you want a book in English that tells you about Nepalese thinking, and gives a taste of the country's contemporary literature, you could hardly do better than House of Snow' Daily Telegraph'One of the finest books I have read this year' Nudge Books'A ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Himalaya

    A Human History

    by Ed Douglas ...
    Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 26 min

    For centuries, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adventurers, and mountaineers seeking to test themselves among the world's most challenging peaks. But far from being wild and barren, the Himalaya has been home to a diversity of indigenous and local cultures, a crucible of world religions, a crossroads ... Read more

    $49.46 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Five Laws of Retail

    How the Most Successful Businesses Have Mastered Them and How You Should Too

    As a senior retail executive for some of the best-known and most successful retail brands in the U.S. and abroad, author George Troy understands today’s volatile retail landscape. In this time of tremendous challenge and realignment within the retail industry, retail executives and countless others are searching for answers and direction. Troy defines the underlying principles that have, for ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Ron Fawcett – Rock Athlete

    The story of a climbing legend

    Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 20 min

    WINNER: Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain LiteratureRon Fawcett is a natural-born climber. In 1969, while still at school in his native Yorkshire, he tied into a climbing rope for the first time and was instantly hooked. From that moment on, it seemed nothing else in his life mattered nearly as much as his next vertical fix.Ten years later, Fawcett was the most famous rock climber in Britain and ... Read more

    $26.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Place, Race, and Identity Formation

    Autobiographical Intersections in a Curriculum Theorist's Daily Life

    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    In this work of curriculum theory, Ed Douglas McKnight addresses and explores the intersections between place (with specific discussion of Kincheloe’s and Pinar’s conceptualization of place and identity) and race (specifically Winthrop Jordan’s historical analysis of race as an Anglo-European construction that became the foundation of a white mythos). To that end, he employs a form of narrative ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Ed Reardon’s Week: Series 17

    A BBC Radio 4 Sitcom

    Narrated by Ed Reardon ...
    Series Audiobook 9 - Ed Reardon's Week

    Unabridged

    2 hours 48 min

    Author, curmudgeon and master of the complaining letter and the abusive email, Ed Reardon is back for a 17th series, still attempting to survive in a world where the media seems to be run by idiots and lying charlatans. ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

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  • The Talking Beasts: A Book Of Fable Wisdom

    The talking beasts: a book of fable wisdom assembles a rich anthology of animal tales adapted from diverse traditions such as Aesop and Bidpai, using symbolic creatures to explore enduring truths about human conduct and character. The opening frames the collection with a gentle, reflective introduction that situates fables within a long moral tradition, emphasizing their ability to compress ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • The Year of the Cat: A Cat of Cozy Situations

    The Year of the Cat, #5

    Series Book 5 - The Year of the Cat
    Cats find themselves in all sorts of situations, sometimes comic, sometimes scary, sometimes just plain headshaking. In fact, for some reason, cats tend to draw crazy situations to themselves like the old cliché, moths to a flame.But nothing attracts cats like a good mystery, particularly of the cozy kind. Cats love crime; they love to solve crimes, to observe humans trying to solve crimes, and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus