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In the early 16th century, a Spanish romantic adventure book told of Queen Calafia and her magical land, California, where she led black-skinned Amazon women of great courage and wisdom; Hansen plays on this trope in this illustrated tribute that combines history and myth.
Doug Hansen from Kent, Washington, was possibly the first and only postal worker to successfully climb Mt. Everest. This article explores his amazing feat and his tragic death.
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. Straddling the top of the world, one foot in Tibet and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently at the vast sweep of earth below. I understood on some dim, detached level that it was a spectacular sight.
15 mar 2013 · North to south, east to west, across mountain, valley, ocean and desert, California's flora and fauna illustrate adapted Aesopian fables. Hansen brilliantly transposes the ancient tales to contemporary and historical settings artistically rendered in bright, finely detailed transparent watercolors. The Hollywood sign and a prospector running ...
“A book that offers readers the emotional immediacy of a survivor’s testament as well as the precision, detail, and quest for accuracy of a great piece of journalism.… It is impossible to read this book unmoved.” —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY “Brilliant, haunting.… This is an angry book, made even more so by the fact that hardly
Doug Hansen's story is perhaps the most devastating in all of Into Thin Air. It's like if Rudy ended with its titular character warming the bench or Remember the Titans ended with everyone actually forgetting those… those… what do you call 'em again?
1 gru 2014 · Historical nonfiction meets fantasy in this imaginative children’s book. Written in alphabetical form, the pages are filled with beautiful illustrations of California’s history, all described from an animal’s point of view while speaking to their Queen.
