Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon,we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride.
In this ground-breaking,classic work,Robert Macfarlane takes us up into the mountains: to experience their shattering beauty,the fear and risk of adventure,and to explore the strange impulses that have for centuries lead us to the world's highest places.
Publisher: Granta BooksISBN: 9781783786794Weight: 226 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm
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'A truly inspiring read'- Sir Ranulph Fiennes
'A marvellous,distinguished book that jolted my heart...It simply fizzes with insights into the sublime madness of mountaineering'- Roger Deakin
'A gripping history of man's irresistible and sometimes fatal attraction to big hills'- Sunday Times
'A magnificent book'- New Scientist
'A brilliant book,beautifully written'- Guardian
Robert Macfarlane
A British author and academic,Robert Macfarlane is an author of prize-winning books on the themes of memory,landscape,nature,environmentalism and travel and regularly writes for publications including the Guardian and the Times. His first book,Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His other works include,The Old Ways,Landmarks and The Lost Words,a children's book of nature spells created in partnership with artist Jackie Morris.
Robert Macfarlane is Reader in Literature and the Geohumanities in the Faculty of English at Emmanuel College,Cambridge. His forthcoming book about subterranean spaces and deep time,Underland,will be published in 2019.
Visit the Robert Macfarlane author page
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