Author: Peter H. Hansen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674074521
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Mountaineering has served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. A fascinating study of the first ascents of the major Alpine peaks and Mt. Everest, The Summits of Modern Man reveals the significance of our encounters with the world’s most forbidding heights and how difficult it is to imagine nature in terms other than conquest and domination.
The Summits of Modern Man
Author: Peter H. Hansen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674074521
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Mountaineering has served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. A fascinating study of the first ascents of the major Alpine peaks and Mt. Everest, The Summits of Modern Man reveals the significance of our encounters with the world’s most forbidding heights and how difficult it is to imagine nature in terms other than conquest and domination.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674074521
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Mountaineering has served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. A fascinating study of the first ascents of the major Alpine peaks and Mt. Everest, The Summits of Modern Man reveals the significance of our encounters with the world’s most forbidding heights and how difficult it is to imagine nature in terms other than conquest and domination.
National and English Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Pages : 904
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The National Review
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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The History of Sport in Britain, 1880-1914: British sport and the wider world
Author: Martin Polley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415318709
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This five volume set is a comprehensive collection of primary sources on sports in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. At the beginning of the period few sports were regulated, but by the outbreak of the First World War organized sports had become an integral part of British cultural, social and economic life. Specialist Martin Polley has collected articles from a wide range of journals including "Blackwood's Magazine,"" Nineteenth Century," "Fortnightly Review" and "Contemporary Review," all of which reveal changing middle-class attitudes to sports. The five volumes cover the varieties of sports being promoted, sports and education, commercial and financial aspects, sports and animals and the globalization of sports through empire.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415318709
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This five volume set is a comprehensive collection of primary sources on sports in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. At the beginning of the period few sports were regulated, but by the outbreak of the First World War organized sports had become an integral part of British cultural, social and economic life. Specialist Martin Polley has collected articles from a wide range of journals including "Blackwood's Magazine,"" Nineteenth Century," "Fortnightly Review" and "Contemporary Review," all of which reveal changing middle-class attitudes to sports. The five volumes cover the varieties of sports being promoted, sports and education, commercial and financial aspects, sports and animals and the globalization of sports through empire.
The Living Age
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Languages : en
Pages : 896
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Pages : 896
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Littell's Living Age
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Littell's Living Age
Author: Eliakim Littell
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Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Pages : 848
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The Leisure Hour
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Friends' Weekly Intelligencer
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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The National and English Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Pages : 898
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