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When he began the job of bringing J.R.R. Tolkien's much loved trilogy to the screen, New Zealand director Jackson may have felt like Frodo Baggins, the lowly Hobbit who assumes the task of taking the Ring of Power on a trek to save Middle Earth. But Jackson proves he is up to it. This first episode shows him well on his way to creating a film epic that nearly matches its source. Fellowship is not simply a sumptuous illustration of a favorite fable; though faithful in every detail to Tolkien, it has a vigorous life of its own--grandeur...
...PEACE LIKE A RIVER This engaging first novel, set in the early 1960s, follows the Land family--father Jeremiah; son Reuben, 11; and daughter Swede, 9--as they try to track down eldest son, Davy, 17, who has been convicted of murder but escaped from jail. Their trek occasions some literally miraculous events, and author Leif Enger makes the preposterous plausible and good...
...ERIK WEIHENMAYER. There are no handicapped-parking zones on Mount Everest. Weihenmayer became the first sightless person to reach the 29,035-ft. (8,850-m) summit. A good athlete, he turned to climbing after losing his sight as a young teenager. The trek required him, with the help of his team, to negotiate ladder bridges over bottomless crevices and ascend a peak that kills even the most able mountaineers...
Peace Like a River This engaging first novel, set in the early 1960s, follows the Land family - father Jeremiah; son Reuben, 11; and daughter Swede, 9 - as they try to track down eldest son, Davy, 17, who has been convicted of murder but escaped from jail. Their trek occasions some literally miraculous events, and author Leif Enger makes the preposterous plausible and good...
...Wall stands testimony to China's long struggle to protect the Middle Kingdom from the nomadic barbarians. But the wall was no obstacle to the heirs of Genghis Khan and their marauding Mongolian warriors, who finally conquered Beijing in 1267. Still, in the khans' time it was an arduous trek over desert and mountain to journey between the Mongolian heartland and Beijing. These days the trip is considerably easier; China United Airlines flies into a number of small commercial and military airports in Inner Mongolia. Or if time isn't an issue, you can take an 11-hour train ride...