Author: Mrs. Henry FreshfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bernina Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A Summer Tour in the Grisons and Italian Valleys of the Bernina
Author: Mrs. Henry FreshfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bernina Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: The Caxton Head Catalogue
Author: James Tregaskis (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Quarterly Review
Author: William GiffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
The Life of Richard Porson, M.A. ...
Author: John Selby WatsonCatalogue of Stirling's and Glasgow Library
Author: Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries. Stirling's LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The old glaciers of Switzerland and North Wales
Author: A. C. RamsayThe Dublin University Magazine
Author: Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World
Author: Françoise BessonPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527554031
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
The essays in this book, written by poets, novelists, mountain-climbers and academics from all over the world, evoke the representation of mountains in the English-speaking world as artists, writers, philosophers or mountain-climbers have represented them from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the Alps to the Pyrenees, from Mount Fuji to Mount Shasta, from the Himalayas to the Scottish Highlands, from Ikere in Nigeria to Devil's Tower in the United States, from Uluru in Australia to the most northern mountain of the Arctic, the shapes of the world speak the same language and tell the world its own story. This interdisciplinary book, weaving together mountaineering, literature, philosophy, painting, cinema, ecology, history, palaeontology, geography, geopolitics, toponymy, law, religion and myth, invites people to an innovative reading of mountains: it reveals the close relationship existing between the shapes of the world and all forms of writing and, at the same time, it shows how the representations of the imagination may be instrumental in protecting the natural world. The story told by the landscape inscribes a broken line in the shapes of the world, tearing the landscape like a fragile page whenever historical and political events (wars, mining or deforestation) leave scars in the landscape; but writers' and artists' representations of mountains constitute a path to awareness as they are not only a painting of beauty, but an image of our link to nature and a warning as well. For centuries the image of the mountain has conveyed a symbolism telling the story of human thought, and this book shows to what extent literature and art play an essential part in our awareness of nature.
Selected List of Books on Mountaineering
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mountaineering
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description