Whympers Scrambles With A Camera

Author : Edward Whymper (Alpiniste)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780900523670
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whymper's Scrambles with a Camera written by Edward Whymper (Alpiniste) and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These pictures, mostly not seen for 100 years and never been published as a set before, give us a unique glimpse of the mountain world at the end of the 19th century.

Author : Alan McNee
Publisher : Victorian Secrets
ISBN 13 : 1906469679
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cockney Who Sold the Alps written by Alan McNee and published by Victorian Secrets. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Smith is one of the most famous Victorians of whom you've probably never heard. During his lifetime, he was a household name, thrilling audiences with his Ascent of Mont Blanc show at London's Egyptian Hall. An inveterate showman, Smith was also a doctor, journalist, raconteur, novelist, travel writer, and playwright. His many talents were outstripped only by his boundless self-belief and huge personality. Even Queen Victoria described him in her journal as "inimitable", an epithet Smith's contemporary Charles Dickens liked to reserve for himself. Although Smith died aged only 43, he managed to pack much incident into his short life. He was robbed by highwaymen in Italy, narrowly escaped death in a hot air ballooning accident, and dodged arrest in Paris during the June Days Uprising of 1848. He also got caught up in the row over Dickens's affair with Ellen Ternan. While his bumptiousness made Smith a divisive figure, many saw in him the Victorian ideal of the self-made man: energetic, imaginative, and ready to seize any new opportunity. As Alan McNee explains in this lively biography, it was his intrepid ascent of Mont Blanc in 1851 that propelled Smith to stardom. His subsequent show inspired 'Mont Blanc mania', encouraging participation in mountaineering as a popular pursuit. The Cockney Who Sold the Alps is a story of ambition, spectacle, and the fleeting nature of celebrity.

Author : Peter H. Hansen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674074556
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Summits of Modern Man written by Peter H. Hansen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Huw Lewis-Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762776579
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mountain Heroes written by Huw Lewis-Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating view of the personalities that make up the world of mountaineering, from world-famous explorers to native sherpas.

Author : Ronald Clark
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448206227
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alps written by Ronald Clark and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unrivalled scenery of the Alps attracts increasing numbers of visitors every year, while for those who seek the more active and dangerous pursuits of climbing and skiing, the region offers unique opportunities. Ronald Clark, a distinguished historian of mountaineering, who knows the Alps from end to end, describes the history of the mountains and their most famous peaks. The heroic story of their exploration, first by scientists, then by such early mountaineers as Whymper, Coolidge, Miss Brevoort and their guides, is related with extensive quotations from letters, diaries and contemporary records. With the mountaineers came the pioneer photographers whose cumbersome but fragile equipment had to be manhandled up ice-slopes and across glaciers to enable them to take their photographs, a procedure which necessitated hours of intricate manoeuvring, in freezing weather, to obtain one successful shot. Other chapters discuss the development of the Alps as a mountain health centre, the coming of roads and railways and the growth of the winter sports industry and Mr Clark warns that the mountains, like a Highland deer forest, can carry only a certain number of living creatures without facing disaster.

Author : Maggs Bros
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.L6/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maggs Bros. Catalogues written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1476 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maggs Bros
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalogue written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Woodward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
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Download or read book Geological Magazine written by Henry Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Whymper
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368121960
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the years 1860-69 written by Edward Whymper and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.