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“Stunning and stirring.” —Boston Globe In The Last of His Kind, renowned adventure writer David Roberts gives readers a spellbinding history of mountain climbing in the twentieth century as told through the biography of Brad Washburn, legendary mountaineering pioneer and photographer. Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air, has praised David Roberts, saying, “Nobody alive writes better about mountaineering”—and nowhere is that truth more evident than in this breathtaking account of the life and exploits of America’s greatest mountain climber.

This volume combines The Last of His Kind and A New Beginning into a single volume. Book 1 - The Last of His Kind The planet Venda has been destroyed, the surface seared and the atmosphere blasted away as a result of the final assault by the alien Morro. Of all the inhabitants of Venda there was only one survivor of the devastated planet, Mev Van Zehe, away serving in the Interstellar Republic Space Navy. Book 2 - A New Beginning The tale of Mev Van Zehe, the last High Lord of Venda continues as he and his companions strike out on their own. They construct their own ship and set off on a journey of discovery across the galaxy.

In the months before he died Peter Gurney was working on this book - a sequel to 'All Of Their Kind' and 'More of Their Kind'. He never tired of writing about and photographing his favourite animals and in this book we are given an insight to 'life with Peter', as seen from the guineau pigs viewpoint.

Norm Diamond photographed the last months of a dilapidated, yet beautiful old gym in Dallas, Texas. These stark images could have come from another era. They evoke themes of memory and loss. No modern gym looks like this. The owner, Doug Eidd, a grizzled 87-year-old, opened the gym in 1962. He could have emerged from a time capsule as well. In the spring of 2018 when he was forced to close the gym on short notice, Diamond stayed to photograph the removal of the equipment as Doug's Gym drifted into memory.

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Their army defeated by the Nazis and their hopes directed toward Russia, several Polish families and individuals courageously struggle to survive despite imprisonment, betrayal, and a single-minded attempt to destroy them

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