Author: John TyndallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Glaciers of the Alps
Author: John TyndallMountain Texture
Author: Garrett FisherPublisher:
ISBN: 9781675981535
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The author's 4th aerial texture book and 23rd book overall, 'Mountain Texture' is a comprehensive gallery of aerial images taken of glaciers found in Switzerland, France, and Italy. Utilizing a light antique airplane from the WWII era, images of these majestic glaciers show patterns, textures, and details of massive formations of ice, from the intimate perspective of an aircraft flying slowly above. While the glaciers themselves are in the process of recession and extinction, they remain literal rivers of ice that carve immense alpine topography. In their natural cycles of movement, they present themselves as unique and ever-changing works of art, difficult to appreciate through ordinary means on the ground or from satellites above. Containing 167 aerial images, 'Mountain Texture' presents virtually unrepeatable views of countless glaciers of the Alps, whether from the perspective closely above, annual flows in ice, or the effects of climate change.
Book of the Alps
Author: Spiegel StefanPublisher:
ISBN: 9783946719328
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World: Asia (U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1386-F)
Author: U.S. Geological SurveyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781782662174
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Alps
Author: Nicholas ShoumatoffPublisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 9780472111114
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Man, nature, geography, climate--a fascinating picture of Europe's major mountain chain
Travels Through the Alps of Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine Chain
Author: James David ForbesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond
Author: Stephen O'SheaPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393634191
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
“An entertaining, turbocharged race among the high mountain passes of six alpine countries.” —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review For centuries the Alps have been witness to the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers, and the dreams of engineers. In The Alps, Stephen O’Shea ("a graceful and passionate writer"—Washington Post) takes readers up and down these majestic mountains. Journeying through their 500-mile arc across France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, and Slovenia, he explores the reality behind historic events and reveals how the Alps have profoundly influenced culture and society.
Iceman
Author: Brenda FowlerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226258232
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Featuring a new Afterword, this is the spectacular story of the 1991 discovery of a Stone Age man in the Alps, a lonely frozen figure who offers clues about the world of 3000 B.C. 33 halftones.
Walking in the Alps
Author: Kev ReynoldsPublisher: Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN: 1849654387
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The second edition of this classic guidebook by Kev Reynolds on walking and trekking in the Alps. This book is a definitive guide to the many thousands of possible routes, with a geographical span that ranges from the Maritime Alps of southern France to the Julians of Slovenia, from Italy's Gran Paradiso to the little-known Türnitzer Alps of eastern Austria, and from the ice-bound giants of the Bernese Oberland to the green rolling Kitzbüheler Alps and the bizarre towers of the Dolomites of South Tirol, showing the amazing diversity of this wonderful mountain chain. There are walks to suit every taste: gentle and undemanding, long and tough, and everything in between. Written by Britain's most respected authority on the Alps, this is a fully updated edition of this important book.
The North Cascades Highway
Author: Jack Watson McLeodPublisher:
ISBN: 9780295993164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The North Cascades Highway, an illustrated natural history guide, helps travelers and readers to appreciate the deeper beauty behind the landscape. Organized as a series of stops at eye-catching sites along eighty miles of the highway, The North Cascades Highway reveals the geological story of each location.