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Author : Leslie Stephen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
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Download or read book The Playground of Europe written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman Davies
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Download or read book God's Playground written by Norman Davies and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Stephen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Playground of Europe written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781314262162
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Playground of Europe written by Leslie Stephen and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Leslie Stephen
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ISBN 13 : 9780827408708
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Download or read book The Playground of Europe written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the Alps, the delights of the Alpine rambling, and a young man's expeditions - the piece on Switzerland in winter is perhaps his finest. This is considered to be one of the landmark books of mountaineering literature, and ranks among the best in climbing literature. The book describes 16 of the author's climbs and rambles in the Alps, including chapters on "The Schreckhorn," "The Jungfrau-Joch," and "The Alps In Winterö - a classic of mountain climbing that influenced generations of climbers. Sir Leslie Stephen is one of the most famous personalities in mountaineering, one of the most respected mountaineers and men of letters Britain has produced. His first ascent was in 1857 (Col du Géant). He was president of the Alpine Club from 1865 to 1868, and editor of the Alpine Journal.
Author : Sir Leslie Stephen
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230361840
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (618 download)
Download or read book The Playground of Europe written by Sir Leslie Stephen and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... 303 CHAPTER XIII THE REGRETS OF A MOUNTAINEER I Have often felt a sympathy, which almost rises to the pathetic, when looking on at a cricket-match or boatrace. Something of the emotion with which Gray regarded the 'distant spires and antique towers ' rises within me. It is not, indeed, that I feel very deeply for the fine ingenuous lads who, as somebody says, are about to be degraded into tricky, selfish Members of Parliament. I have seen too much of them. They are very fine animals; but they are rather too exclusively animal. The soul is apt to be in too embryonic a state within these cases of well-strung bone and muscle. It is impossible for a mere athletic machine, however finely constructed, to appeal very deeply to one's finer sentiments. I can scarcely look forward with even an affectation of sorrow for the time when, if more sophisticated, it will at least have made a nearer approach to the dignity of an intellectual being. It is not the boys who make me feel a touch of sadness; their approaching elevation to the dignity of manhood will raise them on the whole in the scale of humanity; it is the older spectators whose aspect has in it something affecting. The shaky old gentleman, who played in the days when it was decidedly less dangerous to stand up to bowling than to a cannonball, and who now hobbles about on rheumatic joints, by the help of a stick; the corpulent elder, who rowed when boats had gangways down their middle, and did not require as delicate a balance as an acrobat's at the top of a living pyramid--these are the persons whom I cannot see without an occasional sigh. They are really conscious that they have lost something which they can never regain; or, if they momentarily forget it, it is even more forcibly...
Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781354307199
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Playground of Europe written by Leslie Stephen and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 370 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 : Leslie Sir Stephen
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781354728666
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (286 download)
Download or read book The Playground of Europe written by Leslie Sir Stephen and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 364 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 : Holly Henry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521812979
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science written by Holly Henry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : Sir Leslie Stephen
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781354834725
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Playground of Europe written by Sir Leslie Stephen and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 366 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 : Leslie Stephen
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265182079
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Playground of Europe (Classic Reprint) written by Leslie Stephen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Playground of Europe A highly intelligent Swiss guide once gazed with me upon the dreary expanse of chimney-pots through which the south-western Railway escapes from this dingy metropolis. Fancying that I rightly interpreted his looks as symptomatic of the proverbial homesickness of mountaineers, I remarked with an appropriate sigh, That is not so fine a view as we have seen together from the top of Mont Blanc.' Ah, sir was his pathetic reply, 'it is far finer This frank avowal set me thinking. Were my most cherished prejudices folly, or was my favourite guide a fool A question not to be asked Yet very similar shocks, as has often been remarked, await the student of early Alpine literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781289879259
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (792 download)
Download or read book The Playground of Europe written by Leslie Stephen and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Helena Michie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139462962
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Victorian Honeymoons written by Helena Michie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Victorian tourism and Victorian sexuality have been the subject of much critical interest, there has been little research on a characteristically nineteenth-century phenomenon relating to both sex and travel: the honeymoon, or wedding journey. Although the term 'honeymoon' was coined in the eighteenth century, the ritual increased in popularity throughout the Victorian period, until by the end of the century it became a familiar accompaniment to the wedding for all but the poorest classes. Using letters and diaries of 61 real-life honeymooning couples, as well as novels from Frankenstein to Middlemarch that feature honeymoon scenarios, Michie explores the cultural meanings of the honeymoon, arguing that, with its emphasis on privacy and displacement, the honeymoon was central to emerging ideals of conjugality and to ideas of the couple as a primary social unit.
Author : Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Publisher : Mittal Publications
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Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Lands and peoples of the world written by Sir John Alexander Hammerton and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated encyclopaedia about countries and people for children.
Author : Mikel Vause
Publisher : Mountain N' Air Books
ISBN 13 : 9781879415423
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Peering Over the Edge written by Mikel Vause and published by Mountain N' Air Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosophy of Mountaineering. This book is the result of the contributions by some of the greatest authors of moutaineering literature: Pat Ament, Phil Bartlett, Arlene Blum, Margaret Body, Sir Chris Bonington, Hamish M. Brown, Joe Brown, Greg Child, Jim Curran, Giusto Gervasutti, Andrew Greig, Terry Gifford, Heinrich Harrer, Dougal Haston, Maurice Herzog, Sir John Hunt, Jeff Long, Jeff Lowe, Hamish MacInnes, Jeffrey McCarthy, Ian Mitchell, Paul Prichard, David Roberts, Doug Robinson, Steve Roper, Galen Rowell, Woodrow Wilson Sayer, Doug Scott, Eric Shipton, G. B. Spenceley, Sir Leslie Stephen, Mikel Vause, Edward Whymper, Simon Yates, Geoffrey Winthrop Young.
Author : Simon Thompson
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 1849656991
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Unjustifiable Risk? written by Simon Thompson and published by Cicerone Press Limited. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the impartial observer Britain does not appear to have any mountains. Yet the British invented the sport of mountain climbing and for two periods in history British climbers led the world in the pursuit of this beautiful and dangerous obsession. Unjustifiable Risk is the story of the social, economic and cultural conditions that gave rise to the sport, and the achievements and motives of the scientists and poets, parsons and anarchists, villains and judges, ascetics and drunks that have shaped its development over the past two hundred years. The history of climbing inevitably reflects the wider changes that have occurred in British society, including class, gender, nationalism and war, but the sport has also contributed to changing social attitudes to nature and beauty, heroism and death. Over the years, increasing wealth, leisure and mobility have gradually transformed climbing from an activity undertaken by an eccentric and privileged minority into a sub-division of the leisure and tourist industry, while competition, improved technology and information, and increasing specialisation have helped to create climbs of unimaginable difficulty at the leading edge of the sport. But while much has changed, even more has remained the same. Today's climbers would be instantly recognisable to their Victorian predecessors, with their desire to escape from the crowded complexity of urban society and willingness to take "unjustifiable" risk in pursuit of beauty, adventure and self-fulfilment. Unjustifiable Risk was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker prize in 2011.
Author : Arthur Mee
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Total Pages : 1320 pages
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Download or read book Re-making of Europe. European powers to-day. The British Empire. The Atlantic Ocean written by Arthur Mee and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
