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Adventure Relativity: When Intense Experience Shifts Time
Quiet Water Publishing, 2020 There are moments in life that change our perceptions. When we are faced with difficult challenges, with scenes of beauty, with frightening emergencies, with quiet solitude, we often experience a sense of time in different ways. Sometimes it seems to speed up, to race, and in other situations, it seems to move slowly, to crawl. In Adventure Relativity, author Steve Gardiner takes the reader on a journey through a childhood game, a cardiac arrest, a high-altitude climb, a solo trip into the mountains, a heated run in the Boston Marathon, and other adventures that stretched his sense, pulled at his emotions, and gave him a stronger sense of meaning in life. Available from Amazon |
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Highpointing for Tibet: A Journey Supporting The Rowell Fund with John Jancik, Quiet Water Publishing, 2017.
John Jancik created the 50 for Tibet project with the hope of reaching all 50 state highpoints in one calendar year as a fundraiser for The Rowell Fund for Tibet, designed to support Tibetan writers, artists, and musicians. With work and family responsibilities, the one-year timeframe proved unrealistic, but Jancik and many of his friends eventually climbed 48 state highpoints before sending their project overseas where they climbed 18 highpoints in other countries. Throughout these travels, the team saw beautiful scenery, met interesting people, endured long hikes, crossed glaciers lined with crevasses, and spoke with the Dalai Lama. Read about the team's efforts to climb mountains while sharing information about the oppression in Tibet and raising money to help The Rowell Fund. |
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Building Student Literacy Through Sustained Silent Reading, ASCD, 2005
Sustained silent reading is an incredible way of helping students improve their vocabulary, sentence fluency, spelling, grammar, and most importantly, their enjoyment of reading. It is simple, low-cost program that can be utilized in any school building. When students learn to enjoy reading, they are well on their way to becoming life-long readers. Hundreds of teachers have used the ideas expressed in this book to introduce and maintain SSR programs in their classrooms. Available from ASCD |
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Under the Midnight Sun: The Ascent of John Denver Peak and the Search for the Northernmost Point of Land on Earth, with John Jancik and Javanna Richardson, StarsEnd Creations, 2003.
This book is an account of two expeditions to the northern coast of Greenland in 1996 and 2001. It is an area of the world rarely visited where unclimbed mountains, untouched glaciers, and eternal sunlight beckon the climbers to scenes of extreme beauty and solitude. Out of print. Available at Amazon. |
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Why I Climb: Personal Insights of Top Climbers, Stackpole Books, 1990.
Gardiner interviewed dozens of world class mountain climbers about why they chose to participate in the sport. He talked with rock climbers, ice climbers, and high-altitude mountaineers about their dreams, their motivations, and their experiences. Some of the stories are funny, others are serious, many are deeply thoughtful. Their collected answers form an interesting perspective on an age-old question. Out of print. Available at Amazon. |
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Devils Tower National Monument: A Climber's Guide, with Dick Guilmette, The Mountaineers, 1986.
This book was the first edition of the most complete and accurate description of the rock climbing routes on Devils Tower National Monument in northeastern Wyoming. The Devils History Natural History Association has since released additional editions of this book to keep up with new routes and increased demand for information about this classic climbing destination. Out of print. Available at Amazon. |
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