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Author : James Monroe Thorington
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Survey of Early American Ascents in the Alps in the Nineteenth Century written by James Monroe Thorington and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Monroe Thorington
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ISBN 13 : 9781494001650
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Survey of Early American Ascents in the Alps in the Nineteenth Century written by J. Monroe Thorington and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
Author : American Alpine Club
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9781933056302
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book 1975 American Alpine Journal written by American Alpine Club and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Alpine Club
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9780930410711
Total Pages : 404 pages
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Download or read book The American Alpine Journal written by American Alpine Club and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1997-10-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jill Neate
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9780938567042
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mountaineering Literature written by Jill Neate and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long established as a standard reference work worldwide, this is a thorough bibliography of all mountaineering books that are of practical use to climbers or for reading pleasure or historical interest. Documenting more than 2000 books of mountaineering literature, it also includes nearly 900 climber's guidebooks, a sampling of more than 400 works of mountaineering fiction, plus journals and bibliographies.
Author : Maurice Isserman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393292525
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering written by Maurice Isserman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magesterial and thrilling history argues that the story of American mountaineering is the story of America itself. In Continental Divide, Maurice Isserman tells the history of American mountaineering through four centuries of landmark climbs and first ascents. Mountains were originally seen as obstacles to civilization; over time they came to be viewed as places of redemption and renewal. The White Mountains stirred the transcendentalists; the Rockies and Sierras pulled explorers westward toward Manifest Destiny; Yosemite inspired the early environmental conservationists. Climbing began in North America as a pursuit for lone eccentrics but grew to become a mass-participation sport. Beginning with Darby Field in 1642, the first person to climb a mountain in North America, Isserman describes the exploration and first ascents of the major American mountain ranges, from the Appalachians to Alaska. He also profiles the most important American mountaineers, including such figures as John C. Frémont, John Muir, Annie Peck, Bradford Washburn, Charlie Houston, and Bob Bates, relating their exploits both at home and abroad. Isserman traces the evolving social, cultural, and political roles mountains played in shaping the country. He describes how American mountaineers forged a "brotherhood of the rope," modeled on America’s unique democratic self-image that characterized climbing in the years leading up to and immediately following World War II. And he underscores the impact of the postwar "rucksack revolution," including the advances in technique and style made by pioneering "dirtbag" rock climbers. A magnificent, deeply researched history, Continental Divide tells a story of adventure and aspiration in the high peaks that makes a vivid case for the importance of mountains to American national identity.
Author : Caroline Schaumann
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030025282X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book Peak Pursuits written by Caroline Schaumann and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary cultural history of exploration and mountaineering in the nineteenth century European forays to mountain summits began in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with the search for plants and minerals and the study of geology and glaciers. Yet scientists were soon captivated by the enterprise of climbing itself, enthralled with the views and the prospect of “conquering” alpine summits. Inspired by Romantic notions of nature, early mountaineers idealized their endeavors as sublime experiences, all the while deliberately measuring what they saw. As increased leisure time and advances in infrastructure and equipment opened up once formidable mountain regions to those seeking adventure and sport, new models of masculinity emerged that were fraught with tensions. This book examines how written and artistic depictions of nineteenth-century exploration and mountaineering in the Andes, the Alps, and the Sierra Nevada shaped cultural understandings of nature and wilderness in the Anthropocene.
Author : James Monroe Thorington
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1927330068
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Glittering Mountains of Canada written by James Monroe Thorington and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This then is a book of mountaineering, not presenting the Canadian Rockies in their entirety -- no single volume will ever do that -- but including many of the finest things. It is also a book of mountain travel, under conditions such as perhaps the European traveller experienced in the Alps during the Eighteenth Century. Finally, it is a book of mountain history; for here is Geography in the making, and with a tradition behind it -- a story that has never been properly gathered together, and whose details, in part at least, are gone forever." -- from the Preface by J. Monroe Thorington Completely re-edited, re-designed and containing with an impressive collection of archival photos and maps, The Glittering Mountains of Canada is a must-read for anyone interested in mountain literature. The book's position in the pantheon of outdoor writing as a "classic" is only further enhanced and supported by the passionate Foreword by well-known mountain historian and environmental writer Robert William Sandford, who urges the contemporary reader to embrace Thorington's belief in the importance of landscape and the poetry of place. This is a book that deserves to be read and appreciated alongside the work of Wallace Stegner, Henry David Thoreau and Sid Marty.
Author : Arnold Lunn
Publisher : London : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Century of Mountaineering, 1857-1957 written by Arnold Lunn and published by London : Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1957 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book The American Alpine Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
