Armchair Science

Kerr, Philip: Esau, Pocket April 1, 1998 ISBN: 0671019929
,,British author Kerr follows The Grid with an accomplished hybrid of science and Spielberg, in which readers journey to a pristine, mystical locale high in the Himalayas. Jack Furness, America's greatest mountain climber, is the only survivor of an ill-fated, and illegal, assault on Machhapuchhare, a huge peak considered holy by the Nepalese. He returns to the U.S. and presents his former lover, paleoanthropologist Stella Swift, with a hominoid skull he found in an ice cave on the mountain. The skull turns out to be not a fossil but the remains of a yeti, more popularly known as an Abominable Snowman. Stella and Jack quickly assemble an expedition whose nominal purpose is fossil-finding on a neighboring mountain, but whose real purpose is to trap a yeti in order to advance both science and their own glory. What they don't know is that the Pentagon has an interest in this region as well, and has inserted a secret agent into the expedition. The daredevil feats of the mountaineers, the impossible cold and the endless miles of glacier and snow in the little-visited Annapurna Sanctuary make this novel a marvelous armchair travelogue, but it's far more: a complicated yet visceral thriller in which monsters, human and otherwise, roam the earth and hunt each other. Convincing scientific and technological detail will have readers believing easily in yetis and other wonders of the world's highest mountains; they will even forgive the unabashed sentimentality of the ending. Kerr manages his large cast of characters with a sure hand, while the plot gathers speed and power like a Himalayan avalanche.

Condition;Good ,Paperback ,British author Kerr follows The Grid with an accomplished hybrid of science and Spielberg, in which readers journey to a pristine, mystical locale high in the Himalayas. Jack Furness, America's greatest mountain climber, is the only survivor of an ill-fated, and illegal, assault on Machhapuchhare, a huge peak considered holy by the Nepalese. He returns to the U.S. and presents his former lover, paleoanthropologist Stella Swift, with a hominoid skull he found in an ice cave on the mountain. The skull turns out to be not a fossil but the remains of a yeti, more popularly known as an Abominable Snowman. Stella and Jack quickly assemble an expedition whose nominal purpose is fossil-finding on a neighboring mountain, but whose real purpose is to trap a yeti in order to advance both science and their own glory. What they don't know is that the Pentagon has an interest in this region as well, and has inserted a secret agent into the expedition. The daredevil feats of the mountaineers, the impossible cold and the endless miles of glacier and snow in the little-visited Annapurna Sanctuary make this novel a marvelous armchair travelogue, but it's far more: a complicated yet visceral thriller in which monsters, human and otherwise, roam the earth and hunt each other. Convincing scientific and technological detail will have readers believing easily in yetis and other wonders of the world's highest mountains; they will even forgive the unabashed sentimentality of the ending. Kerr manages his large cast of characters with a sure hand, while the plot gathers speed and power like a Himalayan avalanche.

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Grant, Roderick ( Editor ) Popular Mechanics Editors et al: Popular Mechanics Magazine : November 1962, USA Popular Mechanics Company 1962 ; weicher Einband / soft cover
Good Illusrated

Fabulous vintage magazine with amazing articles and period advertisements. This particular issue has features on : Ford's Mustang - Toys of the year - how to store human knowledge - germs from outer space - insulated clothing - two-man submarine - armchair target shooting - 10 Christmas gift ideas - darkroom timer light - making your car burn its gas - robot keeps parked car warm - teaching machine for home use - surface grind with a radial saw - mandrel for tricky knurling jobs - belt sander mounts on lathe - plus all the usual and regular articles on science and mechanics in general. Some edgewear and creasing of covers and spine, minor rubbing of covers, all else fine Soft Cover

[SW: Ford's Mustang - Toys of the year - how to store human knowledge - germs from outer space - insulated clothing - two-man submarine - armchair target shooting - 10 Christmas gift ideas - darkroom timer light - making your car burn its gas - robot keeps par]

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Bass, Thomas A. Camping With the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa, Boston Houghton Mifflin 1990 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover ISBN: 0395415020
Very Good

Type: Hard Back Second Printing Hardcover in Very Good Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Mylar cover. 304 pages. Top corners bumped, else Fine. Very clean burgundy half-cloth gilt titled with pale orange boards. Maps on endpapers.Take a journey with Thomas Bass-his took two years-from your armchair, and visit Bozo fishermen on the edge of the Sahara, trap tsetse flies with Masai warriors, search for human fossils in the Rift valley. Bass sought our scientists on his journey because they make good explorers and "know the names of things". The book explores the colliding of cultures between Western science and traditional culture. Very nice, clean, solid volume with colorful jacket. Fine Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

[SW: AFRICA-DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL; JOURNEYS-AFRICA; SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS-AFRICA;]

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Philip Kerr: Esau, Pocket 1998

Mass Market Paperback Very Good 0671019929 Amazon.com Forget Everest. The most dangerous peak in the Himalayas is Machhapuchhare, considered so sacred that the Nepalese have banned all climbers. And no wonder, as American mountaineering ace Jack Furness discovers after an illegal entry--this is where the Yeti, a.k.a. the Abominable Snowman and Bigfoot, makes his home. Sure to be a major motion picture, this latest from the author of The Grid is an exciting if somewhat predictable (Furness's lover just happens to be a world-class paleoanthropoligist, for example) story of action, political intrigue, and moral ambiguity high above the clouds. If you don't recognize the title's source before Kerr reveals it, you've never heard Alan Bennett's hilarious "My brother is an hairy man" sermon. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Publishers Weekly British author Kerr follows The Grid with an accomplished hybrid of science and Spielberg, in which readers journey to a pristine, mystical locale high in the Himalayas. Jack Furness, America's greatest mountain climber, is the only survivor of an ill-fated?and illegal?assault on Machhapuchhare, a huge peak considered holy by the Nepalese. He returns to the U.S. and presents his former lover, paleoanthropologist Stella Swift, with a hominoid skull he found in an ice cave on the mountain. The skull turns out to be not a fossil but the remains of a yeti?more popularly known as an Abominable Snowman. Stella and Jack quickly assemble an expedition whose nominal purpose is fossil-finding on a neighboring mountain, but whose real purpose is to trap a yeti in order to advance both science and their own glory. What they don't know is that the Pentagon has an interest in this region as well, and has inserted a secret agent into the expedition. The daredevil feats of the mountaineers, the impossible cold and the endless miles of glacier and snow in the little-visited Annapurna Sanctuary make this novel a marvelous armchair travelogue, but it's far more: a complicated yet visceral thriller in which monsters, human and otherwise, roam the earth and hunt each other. Convincing scientific and technological detail will have readers believing easily in yetis and other wonders of the world's highest mountains; they will even forgive the unabashed sentimentality of the ending. Kerr manages his large cast of characters with a sure hand, while the plot gathers speed and power like a Himalayan avalanche. Rights (except electronic): A.P. Watt. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Seltene Bücher bilden seltene Geschenke. Bücher sind falls nicht anders angegeben sehr gut oder besser.

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