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Author : Arnold Lunn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Englishman in the Alps written by Arnold Lunn and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerne en partie le Valais: Col du Simplon, Finsteraarhorn, Matterhorn, Plaine Morte, Weisshorn, Zermatt, etc.
Author : Jim Ring
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571276490
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book How the English Made the Alps written by Jim Ring and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For English read British which is not to quibble with the title but, as Jim Ring himself explains, 'During the period on which this book focuses, it was the custom - in the words of a Scot - ''to let the part - the larger part - speak for the whole.'' Those countries which received them - France, Italy, Austria, Germany, and above all Switzerland - all talked of the English, and the presence of the English in the Alps was precisely so described. To use the term British would thus have been an anachronism.' The nineteenth century will forever be associated with the growth of the British Empire, but nearer home there was a quieter conquest taking place. Gradually the English were taking over the Alps, scaling their peaks, driving railways through them, and introducing both winter sports and those quintessential English institutions - tea, baths, lawn tennis and churches - to remote mountain villages. Jim Ring tells the remarkable story of the English love affair with the Alps, from its beginnings with the Romantic movement, when poets such as Byron and Shelly wrote of the mountains with awed delight, through the great days of the 1850s and 1860s and the formation of the Alpine Club, to the inter-war years when the English assured the future prosperity of the alpine resorts by virtually inventing and then popularizing downhill-skiing. Part history, part biography, How the English made the Alps brings the characters - the artists, the scientists, the gentleman-adventurers, the invalids, the aristocrats, eccentrics and mountain-scramblers - vividly to life. 'Jim Rings's book cannot be bettered.' Daily Mail 'Fascinating' Stephen Venables, Daily Telegraph 'Evocative and entertaining' Financial Times 'A comprehensive, well-written account of a fascinating subject' Guardian
Author : Ronald Clark
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448206227
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book The Alps written by Ronald Clark and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unrivalled scenery of the Alps attracts increasing numbers of visitors every year, while for those who seek the more active and dangerous pursuits of climbing and skiing, the region offers unique opportunities. Ronald Clark, a distinguished historian of mountaineering, who knows the Alps from end to end, describes the history of the mountains and their most famous peaks. The heroic story of their exploration, first by scientists, then by such early mountaineers as Whymper, Coolidge, Miss Brevoort and their guides, is related with extensive quotations from letters, diaries and contemporary records. With the mountaineers came the pioneer photographers whose cumbersome but fragile equipment had to be manhandled up ice-slopes and across glaciers to enable them to take their photographs, a procedure which necessitated hours of intricate manoeuvring, in freezing weather, to obtain one successful shot. Other chapters discuss the development of the Alps as a mountain health centre, the coming of roads and railways and the growth of the winter sports industry and Mr Clark warns that the mountains, like a Highland deer forest, can carry only a certain number of living creatures without facing disaster.
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Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 986 pages
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Download or read book The Periodical written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Beattie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195309553
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Alps written by Andrew Beattie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alps are Europe's highest mountain range: their broad arc stretches right across the center of the continent, encompassing a wide range of traditions and cultures. Andrew Beattie explores the turbulent past and vibrant present of this landscape, where early pioneers of tourism, mountaineering, and scientific research, along with the enduring legacies of historical regimes from the Romans to the Nazis, have all left their mark.
Author : Chicago Public Library
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Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Books of 1912- written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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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Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
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Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Alpine Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : LIT Verlag
Publisher : LIT Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3643966350
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Aldous Huxley Annual written by LIT Verlag and published by LIT Verlag. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 22 opens with two little-known Huxley writings, "A Lunndon Mountaineering Essay" (1914), edited by Gerhard Wagner, and Huxley's contributions in French at the Paris 1933 congress on the future of the European spirit, edited and translated into English by James Sexton. This section is followed by a further selection of papers from the Seventh International Aldous Huxley Symposium held at Toulon in October 2021, many of them devoted to a variety of neglected Huxley issues or to the second part of the Huxley Forum, entitled "Aldous Huxley's Controversial Philosophical Theories." An overview of the conference programme can be consulted on the Internet via https://sites.univ-tln.fr/huxley-toulon/en/program/. The volume closes with further articles on Huxley's concept of the ultimate revolution, on an aficionado's life-long personal experience with Huxley's works, and on Huxley's many-sided response to Charles Dickens.
Author : Anne Hammond
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300092417
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (924 download)
Download or read book Ansel Adams written by Anne Hammond and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his significance, little scholarly attention has been paid to Adams's contributions as an artist or his place in photographic history. This handsome book addresses this gap by looking beyond his reputation as a Sierra Club environmentalist and examining in depth his life as an artist, and the complexities of his creative vision. 80 illustrations.
Author : Craig Storti
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
ISBN 13 : 1529366291
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)
Download or read book The Hunt for Mount Everest written by Craig Storti and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book would be enjoyed by those seeking knowledge of Everest beyond the climbing narratives, as well as those who appreciate the details of navigation and exploration." — Booklist The height of Mt. Everest was first measured in 1850, but the closest any westerner got to Everest during the next 71 years, until 1921, was 40 miles. The Hunt for Mt. Everest tells the story of the 71-year quest to find the world's highest mountain. It's a tale of high drama, of larger-than-life characters-George Everest, Francis Younghusband, George Mallory, Lord Curzon, Edward Whymper-and a few quiet heroes: Alexander Kellas, the 13th Dalai Lama, Charles Bell. A story that traverses the Alps, the Himalayas, Nepal and Tibet, the British Empire (especially British India and the Raj), the Anglo-Russian rivalry known as The Great Game, the disastrous First Afghan War, and the phenomenal Survey of India - it is far bigger than simply the tallest mountain in the world. Encountering spies, war, political intrigues, and hundreds of mules, camels, bullocks, yaks, and two zebrules, Craig Storti uncovers the fascinating and still largely overlooked saga of all that led up to that moment in late June of 1921 when two English climbers, George Mallory and Guy Bullock, became the first westerners-and almost certainly the first human beings-to set foot on Mt. Everest and thereby claimed the last remaining major prize in the history of exploration. With 2021 bringing the 100th anniversary of that year, most Everest chronicles have dealt with the climbing history of the mountain, with all that happened after 1921. The Hunt for Mt. Everest is the seldom-told story of all that happened before.
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Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The English Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George B. Parks
Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
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Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The English traveler to Italy written by George B. Parks and published by Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. This book was released on 1954 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chicago Public Library
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Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Books of 1911- written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1772 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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