But because Singles is filling a literary terrain not crowded by other retailers, it has established itself with far less resistance than Amazon's other publishing branches did.
Wastes of space, they crowded out all the green terrain in his body.
T. J. Raab, a skier from Hoboken, N.J., who coordinates a ski-house share with 17 other people in Killington, Vt., said he had skied there last weekend but that with limited terrain open, the trails felt crowded.
Carving and holding an edge at 35 miles an hour is technically easier now, but that certainly does not make it safe in all terrain or on even mildly crowded slopes.
In Aspen, a ski program called Bumps for Boomers is thriving because it's teaching skiers of a certain age how to escape crowded, groomed trails and ski moguls and off-piste terrain without exhaustion or knee pain.
They are trying to counter the land degradation, caused by too many farmers crowded onto too little turf, that has scarred much of Ethiopia's terrain.
The road arcs inland through increasingly mountainous terrain, trees crowding the camber, the ghost of a defunct railway line lying to one side.
The terrain also toughens for DiCaprio, who has been shut out for nominations in previous years when the fields were crowded (see: 2011's "J. Edgar" and 2012's "Django Unchained").
In rural areas, horses are used by law enforcement for mounted patrols over rugged terrain, crowd control at religious shrines, and border patrol.
But it also appears that Japan, with its cultural disdain for those who stick out from the crowd, may be inhospitable terrain for the reader-turned-reporter model, Mr. Takeuchi said.
