This memoir and autobiography of the legendary mountaineer Bradford Washburn is a great story and was completed before his death in 2007. He was one of the last great explorers and adventureers of the twentieth century. Drawing from decades of memories, journals, and an exquisite photographic collection, Washburn completes the self-portrait of a man drawn to altitude, from his first great climb of Mount Washington at age eleven, through numerous first ascents of peaks all over the world

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Published by the Smithsonian’s Asian Cultural History Program, this full-color, exquisitely illustrated, bilingual monograph (available in English-Georgian or English-Azerbaijani versions) presents research by Paul Michael Taylor, Christopher R. Polglase, Najaf Museybili, Jared M. Koller and Troy A. Johnson, summarizing and interpreting the archaeological finds uncovered by teams of Azerbaijani, Georgian, Turkish, British, and American archaeologists during the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and adjacent South Caucasus (SCP) pipelines, from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean

Born on the plantations of the Mississippi Delta, the blues is Americas roots music. Few performances of the early masters were ever captured on film, but those that were are truly unforgettable. Combining VHS volumes 1 and 2 on one DVD, Blues Masters is an extraordinary, comprehensive visual history of blues music, gathering rare performances and archival footage that trace the development of this unique American art form. With the only known taped performance by Leadbelly, Blues Masters also serves up the smoldering blues of Son House, Bessie Smith, Big Bill Broonzy, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Witherspoon, Billie Holiday and many more

Join Biography for an unforgettable look at the life and legend of the courageous and unstoppable Amelia Earhart