For this fantastic giveaway I am offering you a copy of this amazingly beautiful book...
Alpine Americas is a mountaineer's tour of the 10,000 mile range of peaks from the Arctic to Patagonia. The book combines stunning mountain photography with elegant text that explores the places from all perspectives -- geologic, historical, philosophical -- as it takes readers up the cold wind-swept ridges of Denali or down into the caldron of a smoking Mexican volcano. Each mountain grouping is a different chapter. Each chapter focuses on a single element of what the place means to us. Brooks range in the Arctic, it's all about tranquility and the reassurance of seasonal patterns. Way to the South, in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, it's the chaos and conflict of the natural elements -- angry winds and big weather -- as the jagged landscape thrusts upward from the cold salt sea.
Don Mellor's inspirational words and Olaf Sööt's magical photographs, Alpine Americas is the celebration of the western world's majestic high places.
MY REVIEWWow. This book is amazing. The pictures are incredibly breathtaking! Even my almost-2-year-old daughter Olivia was captivated by the photos! The book itself is super high quality and would be a delightful coffee table book or Christmas gift for the difficult-to-buy for folks on your list. I am truly impressed by Alpine Americas :)
HOW CAN YOU WIN????
1. Leave me one comment telling me you want to win.
2. Visit the Alpine Americas website and take a look around. Come back and tell me something you discovered. You can do this as many times as you like as long as you leave a different discovery in each comment!
After you have done one of the first two you can...
3. Add my link to your blogroll and leave me the link to your site here.
4. Subscribe to my blog in a reader or follow my blog and then leave me a comment telling me you did!
5. Blog about this giveaway and leave me the link to the post. If you don't have a blog just email five of your friends about this giveaway and leave me a comment telling me you did it!
6. Twitter about this giveaway and leave me a link. You can do this once per day for extra entries.
PLEASE LEAVE ME A WAY TO GET IN TOUCH WITH YOU IF YOU WIN!!!
This giveaway is open to everyone everywhere - I will choose a winner on Wednesday, November 5, 2008. You will have 48 hours to respond or I will choose another winner.
And don't forget to enter these other great giveaways I am currently running...
50 comments:
I would love to win this book!
This looks like a beautiful book. I'd love to have a copy. I'm going to check out their website right now.
Thanks for the giveaway!
~Jennifer
jhayes0611(at)yahoo(dot)com
I would love to win please!
hurdler4eva(at)gmail(dot)com
I teach geography and I love books like this to show the students what we are talking about on maps!
I also have added you to my blogs I follow.
I would love to win this book!!
I've posted at Win a Book. No need to enter the contest.
I like to win this book!
This looks very pretty. I grew up in the mountains, I would love to win this book
I love the mountains, I want to win!
I love beautiful photography, and would love to treat myself to an afternoon savoring these photos!
sjbraun at hotmail dot com
A discovery from the book: I never knew the length of the west coast was 10,000 miles. Wow!
sjbraun at hotmail dot com
I would love to win. This is so pretty!
lkziegler[at]gmail.com
You don't really think about how big the "Americas" really are--north pole (ice pack not land) down to 600 miles from the south pole. It's kind of interesting to wrap your head around. You could walk it. With a really warm jacket!
lkziegler[at] gmail.com
I would love to win this, thanks!
Great giveaway!
KawaiiNeko2008 (at) aol (dot) com
This would make a great Christmas gift for my husband!
I would love to win, I love mountains. I am lucky to live near Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Hood!
smchester at gmail dot com
I would love to win this and give it as a Christmas gift.
Did you see Cape Horn? Beautiful.
I would love to win a copy of this beautiful book!
akreese (at) hotmail (dot) com
Did you see the Mountain of Gold, my goodness that's stunning!
I didn't know that one of the longest features on the planet are the mountains that run through the Americas.
akreese (at) hotmail (dot) com
The Wollostan Islands look fascinating.
I didn't know that it is 10,000 miles from Alaska to Patagonia (the length of the mountain ridges). What a long trip that would be.
akreese (at) hotmail (dot) com
I love the mountains and would love to win!
Thanks for (another!) great contest!
jjdragonfly [at] gmail {dot} com
Looks like a great book!
I would love to win this, it looks like a nice peaceful kind of book.
This is all mountain photography. Would love to see as it looks like it would have great pictures. semtaylor@yahoo.com
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This looks like a wonderful book with some stunning photography! I'd love to win. On the website, I read the foreword by John Harlin the III, and it sounds great!
ignoramoose (at) gmail (dot) com
I LOVE photography books, and I would love to win this! The fact that is has photographs from Denali would go great with my photography book from Denali and my own pictures from there!
eyeslikesugar (at) gmail (dot) com
John Harlin seems like such a naturist. From climbing the highest peak in Arctic Alaska, to being a mountain guide in Colorado, to skiing the highest peak in Peru. I would love to just sit down with him and listen to his stories. I love the outdoors. :)
I would love to win! Thanks for the giveaway!
10,000 miles from Alaska to Patagonia and I have never been to either :)
I'd love to enter! Thanks for the contest :D
anastasia[at]medaimafia.org
I would like to win. Thanks!
ericbrooks75 AT yahoo DOT com
The book looks beautiful! I would love to win it!
helerfamATyahooDOTcom
That books looks so inspirational. My dad and I would both love it.
I'd like to win this beautiful book.
-Terra
partymix25(at)hotmail(dot)com
My husband loves books that have beautiful pictures of scenery in them. He would love this for sure. Please enter me! Thanks for the giveaway!
Angela
itsahumanzoo(at)gmail(dot)com
I love to read so I'd LOVE to win. a girl can never have too many books.
This looks like a wonderful book!
ikkinlala AT yahoo DOT ca
I discovered that the western edge of the western hemisphere is one of the longest features on the planet (I'd never really thought about it that way before; I'd always considered several different mountain ranges).
ikkinlala AT yahoo DOT ca
I would love to win this because I am sure it is filled with amazing pics.
This book looks beautiful, thanks so much for the giveaway!
mattandjen[at]gmail.com
I love books and would like this one
We don't get much snow where I live, ok never, but if I had this book I could look at the snow. thanks:)
Theresa n
weceno(at)yahoo(dot)com
I would like to win this book.
acptuser(at)hotmail(dot)com
Book looks beautiful, I'd love to win.
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