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"Mountain of destiny" : Nanga Parbat and its path into the German imagination
- Title
- "Mountain of destiny" : Nanga Parbat and its path into the German imagination / Harald Höbusch.
- Author
- Höbusch, Harald
- Publication
- Rochester, New York : Camden House, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- viii, 282 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Never has a mountain occupied the German imagination longer and more thoroughly than Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth-highest peak, located in present-day Pakistan. Repeatedly referred to in the 1930s as the German "mountain of destiny," over a period of roughly two decades from 1932 to 1953 it became not only the destination of six German mountaineering expeditions, but also the quintessential German "mountain of the mind" onto whose slopes German mountaineers, mountaineering officials, politicians, writers, and filmmakers projected some of the most pressing social, political, and cultural concerns of their times. This book is a detailed study of that process"--
- Series Statement
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
- Uniform Title
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- I. Mountains in the German Imagination 1919-53 -- Between the Wars (1919-39) -- The postwar years (1945-53) -- II. Imprinting Nanga Parbat -- Reading defeat -- Narrating success -- III. Imagi(ni)ng the German "Mountain of destiny" -- Hiding the obvious -- Seeing the unseen.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-8091
- ISBN
- 9781571139580
- 1571139583
- LCCN
- 2015043740
- OCLC
- YBP 2015043740
- Author
- Höbusch, Harald, author.
- Title
- "Mountain of destiny" : Nanga Parbat and its path into the German imagination / Harald Höbusch.
- Publisher
- Rochester, New York : Camden House, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and cultureStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-8091