Spanish Pyrenees

Author : Kev Reynolds
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 1849653542
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pyrenees written by Kev Reynolds and published by Cicerone Press Limited. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resource book covering the finest walks, treks and climbs in the High Pyrenees for 400km between France and Spain, from the Cirque de Lescun, on the edge of the Basque country in the west, to the Carlit massif and the Cerdagne to the east of Andorra. The book is divided into five regional chapters: the Western Valleys; Cirques and Canyons; the Central Pyrenees; Enchanted Mountains; and Andorra and the Eastern High Pyrenees. Intended as a resource book for those planning a range of mountain activities in the Pyrenees, the guide describes each area valley by valley, and provides information on access and accommodation, as well as recommended maps and guidebooks. Unlike a conventional walking book, detailed route descriptions are not included; the guide does, however, direct the reader to the finest walks, treks and climbs in the area and provide an outline of specially selected routes. An extensive introduction gives all the practical advice and information needed for planning a trip. It offers a background to the mountains and their exploration, and provides a snapshot of the range with sections that help the reader focus on specific areas of activity, and suggests where best to exercise that activity.

Author : Peter Sahlins
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520911210
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boundaries written by Peter Sahlins and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an account of two dimension of state and nation building in France and Spain since the seventeenth century--the invention of a national boundary line and the making of Frenchmen and Spaniards. It is also a history of Catalan rural society in the Cerdanya, a valley in the eastern Pyrenees divided between Spain and France in 1659. This study shuttles between two levels, between the center and the periphery. It connects the "macroscopic" political and diplomatic history of France and Spain, from the Old Regime monarchies to the national territorial states of the later nineteenth century; and the "molecular" history--the historical ethnography--of Catalan village communities, rural nobles, and peasants in the borderland. On the frontier, these two histories come together, and they can be told as one.

Author : Dirk Hilbers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789491648076
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spanish Pyrenees written by Dirk Hilbers and published by . This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Parkes
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291271929
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Pyrenees Adventure (GR11) written by Richard Parkes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-28 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Pyrenees Adventure had its beginnings in 2010 after Mike and I completed the Camino de Santiago. I walked the Camino to raise awareness of the problem of prostate cancer in society, being a cancer survivor. Thus two late sixty year old's decided to trek 48 days on the GR11. I hope this story continues to inspire people to follow their dreams and fight adversity.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roadside Sketches in the South of France and Spanish Pyrenees by Three Wayfarers written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marc Dubin
Publisher : Rough Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781843531968
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to the Pyrenees written by Marc Dubin and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2004 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to the Pyrenees is the only guidebook available to the entire region, covering both the French and Spanish sides of this spectacular region, from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. A full-colour section introduces the author''s pick of the attractions, from relaxing in the picturesque spa towns to watching the Tour de France wind up the mountains. There are detailed listings of the best places to eat, drink and stay, from boutique hotels in Biarritz to the most remote mountain refuges. For the outdoor enthusiast there are exhaustive accounts of the walking and climbing routes available and information on the host of other activities available, including skiing, paragliding, rafting, cycling and horse riding. There is also expansive coverage of all the cultural highlights including the prehistoric cave art at Ariege and an accesible history of the region from prehistory to the current day.

Author : Mary Eyre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over the Pyrenees Into Spain written by Mary Eyre and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Day
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385317487
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Pyrenees to the Pillars of Hercules, Observations on Spain, Its History and Its People written by Henry Day and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : José Luis Benito Alonso
Publisher : Jolube Consultor Botánico y Editor
ISBN 13 : 849419965X
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Flowers of Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park (Spanish Pyrenees) written by José Luis Benito Alonso and published by Jolube Consultor Botánico y Editor. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This field guide is illustrated with more than 275 full-colour plates. It shows 174 singular flowers that are present in Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park (Spanish Pyrenees), with 128 profiles, ordered according to 8 ecosystems, each one containing a larger photograph and some smaller ones showing details of the leaves, fruits, flowers or other related species. They are complemented with enjoyable texts where the plant’s special traits, curiosities, origin of its name, uses, ecology, geographical distribution, etc., are detailed. This is the first guide to the flowers of Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park published in English. CONTENTS - What this book contains - Introduction - Location map - Forests and shrubs - Forests clearings and megaphorbs - Pastures - Hay meadows - Wetlands - Rocky ground - Screes - High mountain - Bibliography - Alphabetical index of scientific and vernacular names.

Author : Martyn Lyons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350024791
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pyrenees in the Modern Era written by Martyn Lyons and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The book analyses the individual visions of the heroic Pyrenees which in turn fascinated 19th-century mountaineers and the racing cyclists of the early Tour de France. Martyn Lyons also investigates the role of the Pyrenees during the Second World War as an escape route from Nazi-occupied France, when for thousands of refugees these dangerous borderlands became 'the mountains of liberty', and considers the place of the Pyrenees in recent times right up to the present day. Drawing on travel writing, press reports and scientific texts in several languages, The Pyrenees in the Modern Era explores both the French and Spanish sides of the Pyrenees to provide a nuanced historical understanding of the cultural construction of one of Europe's most prominent border regions. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Europe's cultural history in a transnational context.