Mountains before Mountaineering (eBook)

The Call of the Peaks before the Modern Age

Dawn L. Hollis (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
240 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-1-80399-319-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Today, mountains are spaces for adventure: treasured places for people to connect with nature, encounter the sublime and challenge themselves, whether it be skiing in the Italian Alps or scaling the heights of the Matterhorn in Switzerland. Some regard our love of mountains as relatively new, claiming that before modern mountaineers planted flags upon the peaks, the average European was more likely to revile and avoid a mountainous landscape than to admire it.
Mountains Before Mountaineering tells a different narrative. It reveals the way mountains inspired curiosity and fascination and how they were enjoyed in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. It gives voice to the early modern travellers who climbed peaks and passes with fear and delight; to the 'real mountaineers' who lived and died upon the mountain slopes; and to the scientists who used mountains to try to understand the origins of the world.
This book invites you on a journey through the mountains, long before Everest was 'discovered' as the highest mountain in the world or before the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc. It is the story of how our love of the mountains has been a part of us from the very beginning.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.5.2024
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: 16th century • 17th century • 1924 everest expedition • Adam Olearius • Alps • climbers • Daniel Defoe • dawn l. hollis • early modern mountains • European mountains • first mountaineerers • George Mallory • Highlands • Hill Climbing • hill scrambling • historic mountaineering • History of Geology • jean de thevenot • Lake District • Leslie Stephen • marjorie hope nicholson • Michael Drayton • mountain climbing • mountain history • Mountains • Mount Etna • mount tiede • outdoor pursuits • poetry about mountains • Sandy Irvine • shielings • the alpine club • the Alps • the summit position • Theuerdank • Thomas Burnet • thomas coryate • transhumance • Vesuvius • William Lithgow • William Wordsworth
• ISBN-10: 1-80399-319-7 / 1803993197
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80399-319-5 / 9781803993195