Author: Walter Woodburn HydePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Four Weeks on Foot in the Alps
Author: Walter Woodburn HydeFour weeks on foot in the Alps. 1928
Author: Walter Woodburn HydeMountain Lines
Author: Jonathan ArlanPublisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1510709762
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
A New York Times best summer travel book recommendation A nonfiction debut about an American’s solo, month-long, 400-mile walk from Lake Geneva to Nice. In the summer of 2015, Jonathan Arlan was nearing thirty. Restless, bored, and daydreaming of adventure, he comes across an image on the Internet one day: a map of the southeast corner of France with a single red line snaking south from Lake Geneva, through the jagged brown and white peaks of the Alps to the Mediterranean sea—a route more than four hundred miles long. He decides then and there to walk the whole trail solo. Lacking any outdoor experience, completely ignorant of mountains, sorely out of shape, and fighting last-minute nerves and bad weather, things get off to a rocky start. But Arlan eventually finds his mountain legs—along with a staggering variety of aches and pains—as he tramps a narrow thread of grass, dirt, and rock between cloud-collared, ice-capped peaks in the High Alps, through ancient hamlets built into hillsides, across sheep-dotted mountain pastures, and over countless cols on his way to the sea. In time, this simple, repetitive act of walking for hours each day in the remote beauty of the mountains becomes as exhilarating as it is exhausting. Mountain Lines is the stirring account of a month-long journey on foot through the French Alps and a passionate and intimate book laced with humor, wonder, and curiosity. In the tradition of trekking classics like A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Snow Leopard, and Tracks, the book is a meditation on movement, solitude, adventure, and the magnetic power of the natural world.
A hand-book for travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont. [by J. Murray. 1st] -5th, 7th-10th, 12th, 14th-16th, 18th, 19th ed. [2 issues of the 18th ed. The 16th and 18th eds. are in 2 pt.].
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Author: John MurrayA Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont
Author: John Murray (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland, and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont. 14. Ed
Author: [Anonymus AC09932310]Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland, and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont
Author: John MurrayPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752520086
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
A Hand-Book for Travellers in Switzerland, and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont. By John Murray III. Third Edition, Corrected and Augmented
Author: John Murray (Firm)Skiing Into Modernity
Author: Andrew DenningPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520284275
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"Examines the relationship between skiers and the Alpine environment since the late nineteenth century. It argues that skiing and winter tourism modernized the Alps in both material and perceptual terms while the Alpine landscape itself challenged skiers to alter their practices and philosophies of sport, leisure and nature, harmonizing Alpine skiing with modern cultural values and social practices in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.
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