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Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches
de Jill Fredston
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Used - Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0156032546
- ISBN 13
- 9780156032544
- Librería
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Harvest Books. Used - Like New. 2007. Reprint. Paperback. Fine.
Sinopsis
Every year around the globe, people cross paths with avalanches-some massive, some no deeper than a pizza box-often with deadly results. Avalanche expert Jill Fredston stalks these so-called freaks of nature, forecasting where and when they will strike, deliberately triggering them with explosives, teaching potential victims how to stay alive, and leading rescue efforts when tragedy strikes. Having spent decades trying to keep avalanches and people apart, Fredston brings them together unforgettably in Snowstruck. From a rare store of personal experience, she conveys a panorama of perspectives: a skier making what may prove his final decision, a victim buried so tightly that he can't move a finger, rescuers racing both time and weather, forecasters treading the line between reasonable risk and danger. Seamlessly interweaving these accounts, Fredston brings to life the awesome forces of nature that can turn the mountains deadly-and the equally inexorable forces of human nature that lure us time and again into treacherous terrain.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- DR000602
- Título
- Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches
- Autor
- Jill Fredston
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0156032546
- ISBN 13
- 9780156032544
- Editorial
- Harvest Books
- Lugar de publicación
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- January 8, 2007
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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Chicago, Illinois
Sobre Powell's Bookstores Chicago
Used, rare and out-of-print titles, specializing in academic and scholarly books. Independent bookstores in Chicago since 1970
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Reprint
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
