Author: Charles Edward MathewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blanc, Mont (France and Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The Annals of Mont Blanc
Author: Charles Edward MathewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blanc, Mont (France and Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The Alpine Journal
Author: The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Annals of Philosophy
Author: The Annals of Philosophy
Author: The Geographical Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
The New Mountaineer in Late Victorian Britain
Author: Alan McNeePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319334409
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book is about the rise of a new ethos in British mountaineering during the late nineteenth century. It traces how British attitudes to mountains were transformed by developments both within the new sport of mountaineering and in the wider fin-de-siècle culture. The emergence of the new genre of mountaineering literature, which helped to create a self-conscious community of climbers with broadly shared values, coincided with a range of cultural and scientific trends that also influenced the direction of mountaineering. The author discusses the growing preoccupation with the physical basis of aesthetic sensations, and with physicality and materiality in general; the new interest in the physiology of effort and fatigue; and the characteristically Victorian drive to enumerate, codify, and classify. Examining a wide range of texts, from memoirs and climbing club journals to hotel visitors’ books, he argues that the figure known as the ‘New Mountaineer’ was seen to embody a distinctly modern approach to mountain climbing and mountain aesthetics.
The Climbers' Club Journal
Author: The Alps
Author: Arnold LunnPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"The Alps" by Arnold Lunn. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Summits of Modern Man
Author: Peter H. HansenPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674074556
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The history of mountaineering has long served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. Once upon a time, the Alps were an inaccessible habitat of specters and dragons, until heroic men—pioneers of enlightenment—scaled their summits, classified their strata and flora, and banished the phantoms forever. A fascinating interdisciplinary study of the first ascents of the major Alpine peaks and Mount Everest, The Summits of Modern Man surveys the far-ranging significance of our encounters with the world’s most alluring and forbidding heights. Our obsession with “who got to the top first” may have begun in 1786, the year Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard climbed Mont Blanc and inaugurated an era in which Romantic notions of the sublime spurred climbers’ aspirations. In the following decades, climbing lost its revolutionary cachet as it became associated instead with bourgeois outdoor leisure. Still, the mythic stories of mountaineers, threaded through with themes of imperialism, masculinity, and ascendant Western science and culture, seized the imagination of artists and historians well into the twentieth century, providing grist for stage shows, poetry, films, and landscape paintings. Today, we live on the threshold of a hot planet, where melting glaciers and rising sea levels create ambivalence about the conquest of nature. Long after Hillary and Tenzing’s ascent of Everest, though, the image of modern man supreme on the mountaintop retains its currency. Peter Hansen’s exploration of these persistent images indicates how difficult it is to imagine our relationship with nature in terms other than domination.