Book Mountains Of The Mind: How Desolate And Forbidding Heights Were Transformed Into Experiences Of Indomitable Spirit Pdf ISBN-10 0375421807, ISBN-13 978-0375421

Mountains Of The Mind: How Desolate And Forbidding Heights Were Transformed Into Experiences Of Indomitable Spirit

By autor: Robert Macfarlane
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Three centuries ago, mountains were considered forbidding and forbidden—the abodes of dragons and other ill-tempered grotesque beasts. But with the growing recognition that the Earth’s surface had not been created once and for all but was slowly evolving, mountains came to be seen as the unexplored text of the Earth’s story—a terrain that scientists, adventurers, naturalists, and, finally, travele...

Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Pantheon; 1st edition (June 3, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0375421807
ISBN-13: 978-0375421808
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.1 x 9.6 inches
Amazon Rank: 411171
Format: PDF ePub fb2 djvu ebook

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I liked the book for all the reasons the first reviewer did not."Unfortunately, MacFarlane doesn't make major points or build an argument around these themes,leaving unanswered the great question of mountaineering (and of this book): why?"This is pla...

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explore. In Mountains of the Mind, Robert Macfarlane blends cultural history, meditation, and memoir to show how early geologists helped transform our perceptions of the wild, chaotic landscapes; how the allure of height increasingly drew fearless climbers, culminating in the romantic figure of George Mallory, the passionate Englishman who died on Mount Everest in 1924; and how the elemental beauty of snow and ice coalesced into an aesthetic of the sublime.Mountains of the Mind is at once an enthralling work of history, an intimate account of Macfarlane’s own experiences, and a beautifully written meditation on how memory, landscape, imagination, and the landscape of mountains are joined together in our minds and under our feet.