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...sic style western written by one of the first female western writers. Caroline Lockhart was a rancher, writer and possibly the first woman to go over Glacier National Parks Swiftcurrent Pass. (Summary by Dawn)...

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...and adventurer John Muir recounts how he and his companion, a dog named Stickeen, each, alone, confronted and conquered their fears of an icy Alaskan glacier in 1880. (Summary by Sue Anderson)...

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...r of the valley, which was traversed by a meandering river whose source, she was told, was in the glaciers of the mighty Himalayas, their snow-cappe...

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...k is like saying: let’s grow roses in the desert or cultivate flowers on a glacier. And even so, when I came to know about Sophia-Analysis and ho...

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...to the Lodge owner that negligence on the part of the seller was forgetting to record and classify radiation levels here. There is a breed that knows glacier cracking on snowmobiles, so a bit of danger isn't unfair. It is good to question if Farley Mowat’s "People of the Deer" noticed the danger. I haven't read his book yet on the Inland Inuit of the area and their ancestr...

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...This photoalbum contains photographies made during Smarandache’s trip to Alaska in august 2009 (Anchorage, Fairbanks, Portage Creek, Prince William glacier, Tiulana lake, Ship Creek, Chugach park, Seward, Mouse Pass, Denali National Park & Preserve). The title-lines are distinctive poetry lines of poets in connection with Alaska: John Burroughs (6, 7, 8, 14, 19, 20, 21,...

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...er, leave their grandmother's house in an Alpine village and get lost in the mountain snow. They become trapped among the rock crystals of the frozen glacier. This short and gripping novel, by 19th century Austrian master Adalbert Stifter, influenced Thomas Mann and others with its suspenseful, simple, myth-like story and majestic depictions of nature. Poet W.H. Auden call...

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... in Kyoto. But China was even more alarmed, as was Alpine Europe, when the glacier melting reached excessive levels. The glaciers on China‘s Qinghai... ...estimated that 130 million in China used contaminated water. Then with the glaciers melting, a major source of fresh water was being eliminated. Chi...

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...d taken bit by bit and pressed into this substance of "reality" was like a glacier that was fast breaking apart to the point of being sheathes of floa... ...olidity breaking into smaller and smaller pieces like bits and sub-bits of glaciers and then rearranging, the conclusiveness of conclusions controvert...

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...orms of clouds, rain, groundwater, humidity, moisture, lakes, rivers, oceans, glaciers, snow, ice; cannot be easily sectioned off and owned. Neithe... ...ass Energy indefinitely through a Dynamic of One-Sided Accumulation. Even a glacier is only a temporary accumulation of snow and ice. Glaciers fl... ...is more creative than anything else. A butterfly is not more creative than a glacier or vice versa. The glacier may move slowly, but it ends up re... ...om Southern Asia and Europe to get rid of the huge mammals left over from the Glaciers. Cro-Magnons had no useful role to play in the eco-systems ... ...millions of years: snow came down to meet the walking apes living in Africa. Glaciers: miles of solid ice came down to the Northern shores of the M... ...did the snow fall and melt? Instead of remaining all year and accumulating as glaciers? For how many thousands of years during every Ice Age: did ap... ...America, Asia, Europe, and South America: all have snow every winter… but no glaciers: except in the highest elevations of mountain ranges that are ...

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...nd on Earth has always been the same. As far as I know, if we think of the glaciers as water, the quantity of water has never increased nor decreased...

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...ster, Daniels, Dawson, Deer Lodge, Fallon, Fergus, Flathead, Gallatin, Garfield, Glacier, Golden Valley, Granite, Hill, Jefferson, Judith Basin, Lak...

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...bed Monte Rosa, when I was making notes on the quality of light among the glaciers and snowfields. You see that snail came from the ocean...it’s an ... ...tion); why have I painted so many madonnas? I should paint deluge scenes, glaciers, Vinci. Rain on his velvet suit. How can I continue my journ...

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... Alaskan coast. They shouted with excitement at the gun-pop- ping noise of glaciers and gawked at the plentitude of fish and birds that seemed always ...

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...r all the earth, the present must be one of many like distributions? If moving glaciers from the north once swept over all Europe and North America, a... ...which has never been disputed. While not among the first to note the Greenland glaciers, he was the first to determine their prodigious extent, which ... ...he interior of the former only to find a vast expanse of snow and never-ending glaciers; he had laid down on the charts the cliffs and coast line of t...

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...isp taste of distant snow but also with the aromatic hint of wood smoke. Glacier-white mountain peaks rose on either side of the valley and pierced ...

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... was characterized by large seas, lakes, deltas with deserts, and occasional glaciers. If the owls came out of this period it was when the last of th...

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...In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this continental laboratory of landscapes. The greatest of the tide-water glaciers appropr...