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Author : Francis Fox Tuckett
Publisher : London, Edward Arnold
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Pioneer in the High Alps written by Francis Fox Tuckett and published by London, Edward Arnold. This book was released on 1920 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Fox Tuckett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book A Pioneer in the High Alps written by Francis Fox Tuckett and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. D. Cunningham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Pioneers of the Alps written by C. D. Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kev Reynolds
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 1849654387
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Walking in the Alps written by Kev Reynolds and published by Cicerone Press Limited. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this classic guidebook by Kev Reynolds on walking and trekking in the Alps. This book is a definitive guide to the many thousands of possible routes, with a geographical span that ranges from the Maritime Alps of southern France to the Julians of Slovenia, from Italy's Gran Paradiso to the little-known Türnitzer Alps of eastern Austria, and from the ice-bound giants of the Bernese Oberland to the green rolling Kitzbüheler Alps and the bizarre towers of the Dolomites of South Tirol, showing the amazing diversity of this wonderful mountain chain. There are walks to suit every taste: gentle and undemanding, long and tough, and everything in between. Written by Britain's most respected authority on the Alps, this is a fully updated edition of this important book.
Author : Kev Reynolds
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 1783620641
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)
Download or read book 100 Hut Walks in the Alps written by Kev Reynolds and published by Cicerone Press Limited. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular guidebook by expert Kev Reynolds describes 100 day walks focusing on the mountain huts of the Alps. With walks in France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Slovenia, there are routes to suit every taste - from gentle and undemanding to long and tough, as well as all varieties of difficulty in between. What they have in common is a visit to a hut, each with its own character. Some walks are perfect for lunch at a hut before a return to the valley base, others involve an overnight stay at a hut. In a few cases, a short hut-to-hut tour is suggested. The routes are grouped by country and by specific Alpine district. Most of the routes avoid any climbing of a technical nature, beyond the odd scramble aided by a fixed rope. Notes on hut etiquette, what to take and an English-French-German-Italian glossary are also included to help trekkers get the most out of their time in the Alps.
Author : Jill Neate
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9780938567042
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Mountaineering Literature written by Jill Neate and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long established as a standard reference work worldwide, this is a thorough bibliography of all mountaineering books that are of practical use to climbers or for reading pleasure or historical interest. Documenting more than 2000 books of mountaineering literature, it also includes nearly 900 climber's guidebooks, a sampling of more than 400 works of mountaineering fiction, plus journals and bibliographies.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Alpine Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan McNee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319334409
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)
Download or read book The New Mountaineer in Late Victorian Britain written by Alan McNee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the rise of a new ethos in British mountaineering during the late nineteenth century. It traces how British attitudes to mountains were transformed by developments both within the new sport of mountaineering and in the wider fin-de-siècle culture. The emergence of the new genre of mountaineering literature, which helped to create a self-conscious community of climbers with broadly shared values, coincided with a range of cultural and scientific trends that also influenced the direction of mountaineering. The author discusses the growing preoccupation with the physical basis of aesthetic sensations, and with physicality and materiality in general; the new interest in the physiology of effort and fatigue; and the characteristically Victorian drive to enumerate, codify, and classify. Examining a wide range of texts, from memoirs and climbing club journals to hotel visitors’ books, he argues that the figure known as the ‘New Mountaineer’ was seen to embody a distinctly modern approach to mountain climbing and mountain aesthetics.
Author : Arnold Louis Mumm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Alpine Club Register written by Arnold Louis Mumm and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Author : Fergus Fleming
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 080219754X
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Killing Dragons written by Fergus Fleming and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “dramatic and masterful” account of early alpine explorers and the challenges they faced to scale the summits (Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure). In a riveting narrative of daredevils and eccentrics, Fergus Fleming gives us the breathtaking story of some of history’s greatest explorers as they conquer the soaring peaks of the Alps. Fleming recounts the incredible exploits of the men whose centuries-old fear of the mountain range turned quickly to curiosity, then to obsession, as they explored Europe’s frozen wilderness. In the late eighteenth century, French and Swiss scientists became interested in the Alps as a research destination, but in the 1850s the focus changed: the icy mountains now offered an all-out competition for British climbers who wanted to conquer ever higher and more impossible heights, and explorers fought each other on the peaks and in the press, entertaining a vast public smitten with their bravery, delighted by their personal animosities, and horrified by the disasters that befell them. “Fleming attacks his theme with verve, mining entertainment from eccentric Alpinists, sensational ascents and grisly accidents.” —Food and Travel Magazine
Author : Jon Mathieu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509527745
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Alps written by Jon Mathieu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stretching 1,200 kilometres across six countries, the colossal mountains of the Alps dominate Europe, geographically and historically. Enlightenment thinkers felt the sublime and magisterial peaks were the very embodiment of nature, Romantic poets looked to them for divine inspiration, and Victorian explorers tested their ingenuity and courage against them. Located at the crossroads between powerful states, the Alps have played a crucial role in the formation of European history, a place of intense cultural fusion as well as fierce conflict between warring nations. A diverse range of flora and fauna have made themselves at home in this harsh environment, which today welcomes over 100 million tourists a year. Leading Alpine scholar Jon Mathieu tells the story of the people who have lived in and been inspired by these mountains and valleys, from the ancient peasants of the Neolithic to the cyclists of the Tour de France. Far from being a remote and backward corner of Europe, the Alps are shown by Mathieu to have been a crucible of new ideas and technologies at the heart of the European story.
Author : Cunningham C D
Publisher : Andesite Press
ISBN 13 : 9781298573681
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)
Download or read book The Pioneers of the Alps written by Cunningham C D and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Arthur Paul Harper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783743414563
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Pioneer Work in the Alps of New Zealand written by Arthur Paul Harper and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer Work in the Alps of New Zealand - A record of the first exploration of the chief glaciers and ranges of the Southern Alps is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book H, Natural science. H*, Medicine and surgery. I, Arts and trades. 1926 written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Edward Thomas Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes written by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann C. Colley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317001990
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Victorians in the Mountains written by Ann C. Colley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her compelling book, Ann C. Colley examines the shift away from the cult of the sublime that characterized the early part of the nineteenth century to the less reverential perspective from which the Victorians regarded mountain landscapes. And what a multifaceted perspective it was, as unprecedented numbers of the Victorian middle and professional classes took themselves off on mountaineering holidays so commonplace that the editors of Punch sarcastically reported that the route to the summit of Mont Blanc was to be carpeted. In Part One, Colley mines diaries and letters to interrogate how everyday tourists and climbers both responded to and undercut ideas about the sublime, showing how technological advances like the telescope transformed mountains into theatrical spaces where tourists thrilled to the sight of struggling climbers; almost inevitably, these distant performances were eventually reenacted at exhibitions and on the London stage. Colley's examination of the Alpine Club archives, periodicals, and other primary resources offers a more complicated and inclusive picture of female mountaineering as she documents the strong presence of women on successful expeditions in the latter half of the century. In Part Two, Colley turns to John Ruskin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Louis Stevenson, whose writings about the Alps reflect their feelings about their Romantic heritage and shed light on their ideas about perception, metaphor, and literary style. Colley concludes by offering insights into the ways in which expeditions to the Himalayas affected people's sense of the sublime, arguing that these individuals were motivated as much by the glory of Empire as by aesthetic sensibility. Her ambitious book is an astute exploration of nationalism, as well as theories of gender, spectacle, and the technicalities of glacial movement that were intruding on what before had seemed inviolable.
