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Author : Michel Marthaler
Publisher : LEP, Loisirs et pédagogie SA
ISBN 13 : 9782606011550
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (115 download)
Download or read book The Alps and Our Planet written by Michel Marthaler and published by LEP, Loisirs et pédagogie SA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Spiegel Stefan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783946719328
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Book of the Alps written by Spiegel Stefan and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Helen Fairbairn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781740593953
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Walking in the Alps written by Helen Fairbairn and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details on each of the best walks through the Alps in France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Slovenia are enhanced by quality two-colour maps. There is special coverage of the classic Walker's Haute Route and the spectacular Tour du Mont Blanc as well as practical advice on language, gear, safety, food and accommodation.
Author : Kev Reynolds
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 1849654883
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book The Swiss Alps written by Kev Reynolds and published by Cicerone Press Limited. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive book is an excellent planning resource for those who wish to venture into the Swiss Alps. Whether you are planning a walk, scramble, climb or ski tour this larger format guide describes each mountain area throughout Switzerland - the peaks, passes, valleys and bases - to help readers identify the best destinations for their chosen mountain activity. Dozens of individual valleys are described, together with the mountains that wall them, with recommendations given for their finest walks, treks and climbs. Working eastwards across the country, this guide is divided into seven chapters: Chablais Alps, Pennine Alp, Lepontine and Adula Alps, Bernina, Bregaglia and Albula Alps, Bernese Alps, Central Swiss Alps and the Silvretta and Ratikon Alps, each devoted to a specific range or group of connecting ranges. However, this is not a route guide and detailed descriptions are not provided. The aim of the book is to inspire as well as inform; to show first-time visitors just what the Swiss Alps have to offer and provide a new perspective for those who have been before.
Author : Peter Cebon
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262032520
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Views from the Alps written by Peter Cebon and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although climate change is a global problem, there is growing recognition of the need to look at its regional manifestations and management. This book takes such an approach to the Alpine region. The result of the ongoing Swiss research program Climate and Environment in the Alpine Region [Clear], it incorporates the work of an independent network of approximately fifty researchers from a variety of disciplines.
Author : Alastair Fothergill
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 0399581545
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Our Planet written by Alastair Fothergill and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Sir David Attenborough, this is the striking photographic companion to the Emmy–winning NETFLIX original documentary series, presenting never-before-seen visuals of nature's most intriguing animals in action and the environmental change that has to be seen to be believed. With six hundred members of crew filming in fifty countries over four years, the directors that brought us the original Planet Earth and Blue Planet now take readers on a journey across all the globe’s different biological realms to present stunning visuals of nature's most intriguing animals in action, and environmental change on a scale that must be seen to be believed. Featuring some of the world's rarest creatures and previously unseen parts of the Earth―from deep oceans to remote forests to ice caps―Our Planet takes nature-lovers deep into the science of our natural world. Revealing the most amazing sights on Earth in unprecedented ways, alongside stories of the ways humans are affecting the world’s ecosystems―from the wildebeest migrations in Africa to the penguin colonies of Antarctica―this book places itself at the forefront of a global conversation as we work together to protect and preserve our planet. With a keepsake package featuring debossing and foil stamping, this groundbreaking coffee-table book reveals the most amazing sights on Earth in unprecedented ways.
Author : Stephen O'Shea
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393634191
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond written by Stephen O'Shea and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An entertaining, turbocharged race among the high mountain passes of six alpine countries.” —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review For centuries the Alps have been witness to the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers, and the dreams of engineers. In The Alps, Stephen O’Shea ("a graceful and passionate writer"—Washington Post) takes readers up and down these majestic mountains. Journeying through their 500-mile arc across France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, and Slovenia, he explores the reality behind historic events and reveals how the Alps have profoundly influenced culture and society.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Our Planet written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas George Bonney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Story of Our Planet written by Thomas George Bonney and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas George Bonney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Story of Our Planet written by Thomas George Bonney and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alice Bell
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640094342
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Our Biggest Experiment written by Alice Bell and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the defining story of our age: the climate crisis. Our understanding of the Earth's fluctuating environment is an extraordinary story of human perception and scientific endeavor. It also began much earlier than we might think. In Our Biggest Experiment, Alice Bell takes us back to climate change science's earliest steps in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the point when concern started to rise in the 1950s and right up to today, where the “debate” is over and the world is finally starting to face up to the reality that things are going to get a lot hotter, a lot drier (in some places), and a lot wetter (in others), with catastrophic consequences for most of Earth's biomes. Our Biggest Experiment recounts how the world became addicted to fossil fuels, how we discovered that electricity could be a savior, and how renewable energy is far from a twentieth-century discovery. Bell cuts through complicated jargon and jumbles of numbers to show how we're getting to grips with what is now the defining issue of our time. The message she relays is ultimately hopeful; harnessing the ingenuity and intelligence that has driven the history of climate change research can result in a more sustainable and bearable future for humanity.
Author : Lorenzo Zamboni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789088909610
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Crossing the Alps written by Lorenzo Zamboni and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive overview on Iron Age urbanism south and north of the Alps.
Author : Andrew Terrill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737068648
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (686 download)
Download or read book The Earth Beneath My Feet written by Andrew Terrill and published by . This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earth Beneath My Feet is the first of two books that describe an epic 7,000-mile wilderness walk across an entire continent. Like millions of people, Andrew Terrill grew up on the edge of a big city. But for Terrill, suburban life felt predictable and crowded - the days lacked purpose and meaning. What he craved was a life of freedom, adventure and simplicity, and after nearly dying in the Swiss Alps that was the life he chose. In May 1997 he left his London home and travelled to the southernmost point of Calabria, Italy. Once there, he turned north and began walking, headed for Norway's North Cape. Leaving civilisation behind, Terrill journeyed deep into the 'other Europe', the hidden wilderness Europe that still exists beyond road's end. Hiking from the Apennine mountain range - a wild side of Italy few outsiders ever know - to the vast northern wildernesses of Arctic Norway, Terrill immersed himself in the natural world, forever seeking a deeper connection with it. The 18-month journey became a voyage of discovery, unveiling the secrets and treasures of Europe's least-known places. The miles brought hardships and struggles, pushed Terrill to his limits, but ultimately led to unimaginable rewards. The Earth Beneath My Feet covers the journey's first eight months, taking readers the entire length of Italy during a searing-hot summer, and across Austria into the depths of an Alpine winter. It is a compelling tale of adventure told with freshness, optimism, wonder and youthful enthusiasm - an inspiring true story of a young man who chose to embrace life and live it to the full.
Author : Pier Paolo Viazzo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521306639
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Upland Communities written by Pier Paolo Viazzo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-02-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the social, economic and demographic transformations of the Alpine area from the late Middle Ages. Its aim is to reassess the image of the upland community which emerges from the work of historians, geographers and social anthropologists. The book therefore deals at length with such problems as the causes and consequences of emigration and patterns of marriage and inheritance in favouring or hampering the adjustments of local populations to changing economic or ecological circumstances, and tackles the vexed question of the relative importance of cultural and environmental factors in shaping family forms and community structures. Although its foundation lies in a long period of anthropological fieldwork conducted in an Alpine community, Upland Communities relies on the methods and conceptual tools of historical demography. Combined with a long-term historical perspective, its broad comparative approach unveils an unexpected diversity in regional and spatial demographic patterns and questions a number of deep-rooted but ultimately misleading notions concerning mountain society and its alleged backwardness in the past.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Alps written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wonderful and awesome the Alps indeed are - a broken barrier of snow-frosted peaks stretching across Europe from France to Yugoslavia."--Jacket.
Author : Angelo M. Codevilla
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 089526238X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Between the Alps and a Hard Place written by Angelo M. Codevilla and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Switzerland's "neutrality" is fully examined and challenged in this groundbreaking study of the economics underpinning the political in that country's successful non-alignment policies.
