Mountains before Mountaineering

Name: Mountains before Mountaineering
Brand: The History Press Ltd
SKU: 9781803993188
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The Call of the Peaks before the Modern Age

Autor: Dawn L. Hollis

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: The History Press Ltd

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Today, mountains are spaces for adventure: treasured places for people to connect with nature, encou...

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Autor

Dawn L. Hollis

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2024

Stránek

240

EAN

9781803993188

Enbook ID

44319906

Vydavatel

The History Press Ltd

Hmotnost

510

Rozměry

156 x 234

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Today, mountains are spaces for adventure: treasured places for people to connect with nature, encounter the sublime and challenge themselves, whether it be skiing in the Italian Alps or scaling the heights of the Matterhorn in Switzerland. Some regard our love of mountains as relatively new, claiming that before modern mountaineers planted flags upon the peaks, the average European was more likely to revile and avoid a mountainous landscape than to admire it.

Mountains Before Mountaineering tells a different narrative. It reveals the way mountains inspired curiosity and fascination and how they were enjoyed in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. It gives voice to the early modern travellers who climbed peaks and passes with fear and delight; to the ‘real mountaineers’ who lived and died upon the mountain slopes; and to the scientists who used mountains to try to understand the origins of the world.

This book invites you on a journey through the mountains, long before Everest was ‘discovered’ as the highest mountain in the world or before the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc. It is the story of how our love of the mountains has been a part of us from the very beginning.

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