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Mountains of the mind : a history of a fascination / Robert Macfarlane.
- Title
- Mountains of the mind : a history of a fascination / Robert Macfarlane.
- Author
- Macfarlane, Robert, 1976-
- Publication
- London : Granta, 2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | GV199.89 .M33 2003b | Off-site |
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- Description
- 306 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Since they were once avoided at all costs, how have mountains, in the space of three centuries, come to exert such a strange and sometimes fatal hold on the imagination, moving millions every year to risk their lives? The author of this engaging book seeks to answer these questions.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-291) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Possession -- 2. The Great Stone Book -- 3. The Pursuit of Fear -- 4. Glaciers and Ice: the Streams of Time -- 5. Altitude: the Summit and the View -- 6. Walking off the Map -- 7. A New Heaven and a New Earth -- 8. Everest -- 9. The Snow Hare.
- ISBN
- 1862075611
- OCLC
- 51993977
- SCSB-11713454
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library