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5Jim53
Jun 2, 2007, 11:53 am

11aviddiva
Jun 4, 2007, 12:49 am

Singing Family of the Cumberlands by Jean Ritchie
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
Fanny Hill by John Cleland
The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag
The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner

12varielle
Jun 20, 2007, 2:36 pm

Seven Years in Tibet
36 Views of Mt. Fuji
Smokehouse ham, spoon bread and Scuppernong wine: The Folklore and art of Southern Appalachian Cooking
The Foxfire Book: Hog dressing, log cabin building, Mountain Crafts & Foods
The Afghan Amulet: Travels from the Hindu Kush to Razgrad

13tropics
Jul 14, 2007, 11:06 pm

The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account Of Kuru, Cannibals, And Mad Cow Disease - Robert Klitzman
Through The Volcanoes: A Central American Journey - Jeremy Paxman
Volcano Weather - Henry Stommel
The Snows Of Kilmanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
The Volcanoes Above Us - Norman Lewis

14dihiba
Jul 15, 2007, 9:15 am

Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
Jane of Lantern Hill by LM Montgomery
The View from the Summit by Sir Edmund Hillary
The Wandering Hill by Larry McMurtry

do we get extra points for a two-for-one?

A Light from the Mountain by Laurel Anne HILL

15hazelk
Jul 15, 2007, 9:33 am


A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
Himalayan Foothills by Uresila Devi Sood
The Hills of Devi by E M Forster
Ghosts and Haunts from the Appalachian Foothills by James Burchill
Everest:Mountain Without Mercy by Broughton Coburn

16LynnB
Jul 15, 2007, 10:54 am

dihiba, you really should get double points. Too bad there are no prizes!!!!

17dihiba
Jul 15, 2007, 11:49 am

Thanks LynnB : ). Just a hint for someone else - there are at least two "doubles" for the author Grace Livingston HILL.

19tropics
Edited: Aug 31, 2007, 7:29 pm

Mountains Beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder
Salvation On Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling And Redemption In Southern Appalachia - Dennis Covington
The Mountain Meadows Massacre - Juanita Brooks
Across A Hundred Mountains: A Novel - Reyna Grande
Lost Mountain: A Year In The Vanishing Wilderness; Radical Strip Mining And The Devastation Of Appalachia - Eric Reese

22Schmerguls
Sep 27, 2007, 10:24 am

48 The Shepherd of the Hills, by Harold Bell Wright
3162 Franklin Pierce:Young Hickory of the Granite Hills, by Ray Franklin Nichols (read 20 Feb 1999)
The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton, by Michael Mott (read 31 Jul 1987)
Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder (read 20 Feb 2005)
Mountains of the Mind, by Robert Macfarlane (read 12 Aug 2007)

24bfrost
Feb 16, 2009, 8:10 am

Alpine Adventure by George Lazenby
The Sermon on the Mount by D. A. Carson
The Mountains have a Secret by Arthur Upfield
The Bachelors of Broken Hill By Arthur Upfield
Mover of Men and Mountains by R G LeTourneau

26MarianV
Feb 16, 2009, 10:35 am

Shaker Heights (OH) Bruce T. Marshall
These thousand hills A. B. Guthrie
Men to match my mountains Irving Stone
Over the hills & far awayChris Conover
Mountain Meadow John Buchan

28bedda
Feb 17, 2009, 10:01 am

29chinquapin
Aug 14, 2009, 11:13 am

The Year at Maple Hill Farm by Alice Provensen
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
Thunder Mountain by Zane Grey
The Phantom of Pine Hill by Carolyn Keene
Rescue Dog of the High Pass by Jim Kjelgaard

30patchygirl
Edited: Feb 1, 2016, 8:09 am

How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt by Mick Conefrey
Summerhill by A S Neill
Risinghill by Leila Berg
The Mountain of Adventure by Enid Blyton
Cherry Ames - Mountaineer Nurse by Julie Tatham

31EMS_24
Edited: Feb 1, 2016, 10:56 am

berg(en) = mountain(s)

De brullende berg ( The Roaring Mountain ) by Willy Vandersteen
Nacht op de kale berg (Night on the Bald Mountain) by Karel van het Reve
Alban Berg by Karen Monson
Gouden bergen ( lit: Golden Mountains = Empty Promises) by Lieneke Dijkzeul
Er zijn bergen verzet! -( They Moved Mountains! ) by De Centrale Administratie

32thorold
Feb 1, 2016, 11:15 am

Five Scottish summits that Mr Munro failed to include in his official list:

Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia by Margaret Cousins
Ben Jonson: a life by Ian Donaldson
Cairn Terriers by Erliss McCormack
Drum Taps by Walt Whitman

33EMS_24
Edited: Feb 1, 2016, 12:10 pm

>32 thorold: ,
sure if you could have posted six titles you had added:

The Benny Hill Story by John Smith

34thorold
Feb 1, 2016, 12:15 pm

>33 EMS_24:
I might have, if I only knew a bit more about Gaelic spelling conventions. It would have to be something like Beinn Ni'Chill...