Category Archives: autobiography

The Totem Pole by Paul Pritchard cover art

The Totem Pole – Paul Pritchard

Published: 1999 Reading style: easy Images: small B&W selection What the publisher says: The remarkable story of a man who climbed back to a new life… Paul Pritchard gained a reputation as a climber of routes of extreme technical difficulty

The Totem Pole by Paul Pritchard cover art

The Totem Pole – Paul Pritchard

Published: 1999 Reading style: easy Images: small B&W selection What the publisher says: The remarkable story of a man who climbed back to a new life… Paul Pritchard gained a reputation as a climber of routes of extreme technical difficulty

Let my people go surfing - Yvon Chouinard

Let my people go surfing – Yvon Chouinard

Published: 2005 Reading style: easy Images: b&w throughout What the publisher says: the education of a reluctant businessman As a child, Yvon Chouinard moved with his father, a French Canadian blacksmith, to Southern California with little English and less money.

Let my people go surfing - Yvon Chouinard

Let my people go surfing – Yvon Chouinard

Published: 2005 Reading style: easy Images: b&w throughout What the publisher says: the education of a reluctant businessman As a child, Yvon Chouinard moved with his father, a French Canadian blacksmith, to Southern California with little English and less money.

The Last True Explorer – Philip Temple

The Last True Explorer – Philip Temple

The Mountain Library rating: ★★★ Published:  2002 Reading style: easy Images: yes (extensive selection of colour and B&W) What the publisher says: Into Darkest New Guinea Forty years ago, a young New Zealand mountaineer headed into the unknown interior of

The Last True Explorer – Philip Temple

The Last True Explorer – Philip Temple

The Mountain Library rating: ★★★ Published:  2002 Reading style: easy Images: yes (extensive selection of colour and B&W) What the publisher says: Into Darkest New Guinea Forty years ago, a young New Zealand mountaineer headed into the unknown interior of