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Work, Wit & Wild Weather at the Mount Washington Observatory
Experience the world's worst weather in the comfort of your own home. Weather jokes and puns abound in this amusing look at life on one of the world's deadliest mountains.
Where can you build a snowman in June, commute home by sled, and witness hurricane-force winds twelve months out of the year? The answer is only at the 6288-foot-high Mount Washington Observatory, perched amongst the clouds in New Hampshire's White Mountains. A record-breaking 231-mph gust of wind shrieked across the summit in 1934, earning the mountain i | |  | | Cat in the Clouds
A children's picture book about the famous Mount Washington weather cat.
Stray cat Nin is searching for a place to stay. When he meets a meteorologist named Mark, Nin begins his greatest adventure yet--a journey to the weather observatory atop Mount Washington. Follow Nin and Mark to a land where the wind howls, snow swirls and wild bears roam.
Richly illustrated with watercolors by T.B.R. Walsh, i>a href="http://www.ericpinder.com/html/nin.html">Cat in the Clouds/a>/i> will delight children and adults with scenic alpine vistas and an educational peek inside the famous weather observatory atop Mount Washington, where a handful of hard | |  | | Life at the Top
Weather, Wisdom & High Cuisine from the Mount Washington Observatory
p align="left">font face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif,sans-serif">This all-new, updated, expanded edition of i>Life at the Top/i> brings the tall tales and wild weather adventures of the a href="http://www.ericpinder.com/html/observatory.html">Mount Washington Observatory/a> into the 21st century. New photos, new weather jokes, and new chapters introduce readers to hapless hikers, mischievous meteorologists and a href="http://www.ericpinder.com/html/cats.html">summit cats Marty and Nin/a>. (Nin was just a rookie when the first edition of i>Life at the Top/i>/font>font | |  | | North to Katahdin
What do hikers seek on the trail? Follow Thoreau in 1846, then visit today's Appalachian Trail to see how much has changed.
P>BR>FONT face=Arial>FONT size=2>Why do we like to hike? Why do we walk through the tick-infested woods? Why do we endure cold rain, aching knees, mosquito bites and weeks without a shower on the Appalachian Trail? EM>North to Katahdin/EM> is Eric Pinder's nearly 200-page attempt to find an answer./FONT>BR>BR>FONT size=2>Are the urbanites who are now trekking the trails with cell phones, high-tech synthetic fabrics, and GPS units having remotely the same experience that Thoreau did in 1846, when he ventured into the Maine woods for the mere sake of seeing what was there? Are the | |  | | Sheep Football and Other Strange Tales
Humorous essays and thoughtful stories about being chased by a bear, the New Hampshire Primary and small town life.
FONT face=Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif,sans-serif size=-1>Imagine a place where moose outnumber people, where bears chase cyclists down mountains, where the Milky Way shines brightly in the sky, and the nearest traffic light is an hour’s drive away. This collection of stories and essays (and a few poems) celebrates America’s rural way of life./FONT>BR>FONT face=Verdana size=2>BR>FONT face=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-serif,sans-serif>/FONT>FONT face=Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif,sans-serif size=-1>Here’s a sample of what you’ll find in I>Sheep Footbal | |  | | Tying Down the Wind
Explore the nature of weather, from windswept Mount Washington to Tornado Alley to the South Pole, in a 10-hour audiobook.
FONT face=Arial>FONT size=-1>Where can you find the worst weather on earth? The surprising answer in I>A href="http://www.ericpinder.com/html/wind.html">Tying Down the Wind/A>/I> is: everywhere! You don’t need to climb Mount Everest or voyage to the icy desert of Antarctica to witness both the beauty and the destructiveness of weather. The same forces are at work in your own backyard./FONT>BR>BR>FONT size=-1>I>Tying Down the Wind/I> takes readers on a voyage of discovery through the atmosphere, a swirling ocean of air that surrounds and sustains life. The journey begins in a sunny |
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Literary Savannah
by Aberjhani
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 "The statues of Savannah's Monument Square are silent. The statue of the solemn girl in Bonaventure Cemetery—made famous in John Berendt's blockbuster book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil—can't speak. Only Savannah's literary monuments can g |
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