Mountains of the Mind Adventures in Reaching the Summit

Name: Mountains of the Mind Adventures in Reaching the Summit
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ISBN: 9780375714061

ISBN-10: 0375714065

ISBN-13: 9780375714061

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Authors: Robert Macfarlane, Rob MacFarlane

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Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world’s highest places has came to grip the Western imagination—and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes. His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the forbidding abodes of dragons and other mysterious beasts. In the mid-1700s the attentions of both science and poetry sparked a passion for mountains; Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lord Byron extolled the sublime experiences to be had on high; and by 1924 the death on Mt Everest of an Englishman named George Mallory came to…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/13/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.17" wide x 7.96" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

ROBERT MACFARLANE is the prize-winning author of THE WILD PLACES (2007) and THE OLD ROADS (2011).