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Author : Armand Edwards Singer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015013455392
Author : John Muir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011840266
This volume contains eleven mountain adventures, from the high Sierras in California to first ascents in Alaska. In each John Muir, who founded the Sierra Club in 1892, maintains a careful and subtle balance between the physical and symbolic aspects of ascending or observing the sublimity of his surroundings. Mountains are for him a source of discovery, not merely of new geography, but also of the inner human, and they represent a supreme test and an affirmation of the human spirit.
Author : Arnold H. M. Lunn
Publisher : Trieste Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0649113276
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Author : Ed Douglas
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781911342496
'How much risk is worth taking for so beautiful a prize?' The Magician's Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing. In the title essay, he writes about failure on Annapurna III in 1981, one of the boldest attempts in Himalayan mountaineering on one of the most beautiful lines – a line that remains unclimbed to this day. Douglas writes about bitter controversies, like that surrounding Ueli Steck's disputed solo ascent of of the south face of Annapurna, the fate of Toni Egger on Cerro Torre in 1959 – when Cesare Maestri claimed the pair had made the first ascent, and the rise and fall of Slovenian ace Tomaz Humar. There are profiles of two stars of the 1980s: the much-loved German Kurt Albert, the father of the 'redpoint', and the enigmatic rock star Patrick Edlinger, a national hero in his native France who lost his way. In Crazy Wisdom, Douglas offers fresh perspectives on the impact mountaineering has on local communities and the role climbers play in the developing world. The final essay explores the relationship between art and alpinism as a way of understanding why it is that people climb mountains.
Author : Tom Patey
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0898865425
The first American edition of a mountaineering classic: stories, satire, and verse by the legendary Scottish climber.
Author : John Muir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Mountaineering
ISBN : OCLC:654660390
Author : Sarah-Jane Dobner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1838400419
A Feeling for Rock is a visceral exploration of rock climbing as a passion and a lifestyle. Through a medley of poetry, cartoons, essays, interviews, weavings, photographs and technical tips, it conveys the experience of being bamboozled by a route, connecting with the landscape or flicking through a guidebook. In addition, the book ventures into ethical regions of gender bias and privilege and questions our relations with each other and the rock. Chapters are headed by different feelings - Love, Curiosity, Astonishment, Pain, Lust, Fear, Wonder, Companionship and so on - which lie at the core of a climbing life. A Feeling for Rock is perfect for dipping into or a more immersive read. Being full of pictures and soft to the touch, it is also rather a beautiful item to hold in your hands. "Rock climbing has shaped my body, my bookshelves, my boyfriends, my community, my employment, my home, my holidays, the clothes I wear, the vehicle I drive, how I spend my money and what happens when I die. I am a product of the rock. The dynamic is visceral, spiritual, intellectual and emotional - no area of me untouched by this curious hobby."
Author : Arnold H Lunn
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022020315
A collection of essays about mountaineering written by Arnold H. Lunn, an accomplished skier and mountaineer who founded the Alpine Ski Club. Lunn writes about his own experiences climbing in the Alps as well as the history and culture of mountain climbing. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in mountaineering and the outdoors. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Michael Tobias,Harold Drasdo
Publisher : Overlook Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Mountaineering
ISBN : UCSC:32106007266064
Author : Jim Perrin
Publisher : Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1903238986
Recognised as one of Britain's mountain writers, this collection brings together the best of author's essays and articles on climbing. It is selected from four decades of describing and commenting on the experience of rock-climbing and the characters of the climbing community.
Author : Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn,Arnold Lunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Alps
ISBN : UOM:39015001676348
Author : Adam Watson,Formerly Visiting Professor Adam Watson
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1782224610
This book begins with a thought-provoking article now reprinted, criticising the increasing influence of politically-correct organisations and politicians who desire to control freewill and mountaineering. Then comes a chapter with a critique of several writers on the Cairngorms in comparison with the original Seton Gordon. After the author published a review in 1977 on 'The wildlife potential of the Cairngorms region', he came under unwarranted attack by two influential private landowners who misrepresented what he wrote and even included a threat. A wider public should be aware of this. There follows an essay on biologist Professor Vero C. Wynne-Edwards, and another on the history of the research station near Banchory, established for studying at first red grouse and then ecological problems of mountain, moorland, woodland and fresh-water. The last chapter - the most important one and occupying a third of the book - gives the author's lifetime view of the value of lone trips in climbing, ski-mountaineering and mountain-craft.
Author : Arnold H. M. Lunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1331273218
Excerpt from Oxford Mountaineering Essays Oxford, they tell us, is the home of movements; Cambridge the home of men. Certainly the miniature movement that took shape in this little book was inspired by a Cambridge man. It was at an Oxford tea-party, where the talk had been unashamedly of mountains and their metaphysic, that Mr. G. Winthrop Young gave the first impulse to the scheme that ultimately produced this collection of essays. To Mr. Young the editor and contributors have been indebted for constant help and advice. He has heartened the despondent, and has inked cold daylight into more than one 'sunset' passage. At Oxford there are a number of Alpine clubs. The oldest and most sedate meets once a year in New College Hall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Claude Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0649216199
Author : Simon Bainbridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192599759
This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened 'mountaineering' in 1802. It argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally recognised, and shows how writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Walter Scott were central to the activity's evolution. It explores how the desire for physical ascent shaped Romantic-period literary culture and investigates how the figure of the mountaineer became crucial to creative identities and literary outputs. Illustrated with 25 images from the period, the book shows how mountaineering in Britain had its origins in scientific research, antiquarian travel, and the search for the picturesque and the sublime. It considers how writers engaged with mountaineering's power dynamics and investigates issues including the politics of the summit view (what Wordsworth terms 'visual sovereignty'), the relationships between different types of 'mountaineers', and the role of women in the developing cultures of ascent. Placing the work of canonical writers alongside a wide range of other types of mountaineering literature, this book reassesses key Romantic-period terms and ideas, such as vision, insight, elevation, revelation, transcendence, and the sublime. It opens up new ways of understanding the relationship between Romantic-period writers and the world that they experienced through their feet and hands, as well as their eyes, as they moved through the challenging landscapes of the British mountains.
