Peak pursuits: the emergence of mountaineering in the nineteenth century

Medientyp: Buch

Titel: Peak pursuits : the emergence of mountaineering in the nineteenth century

Beteiligte: Schaumann, Caroline [VerfasserIn]

Erschienen: New Haven; London: Yale University Press, [2020]

Umfang: xi, 365 Seiten; Illustrationen

Sprache: Englisch

ISBN: 9780300231946

Schlagwörter: Bergsteigen > Geschichte 1789-1914

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Beschreibung: "Rather than documenting the history of Alpinism, recounting the ascents of peaks, or giving a portrayal of the most renowned climbers, this book presents a kind of Humboldtian history of mountaineering in the long nineteenth century (ca. 1789-1914) when both scientific progress and aesthetic reverence became available through the embodied experience of the mountaineer"--

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