Author: Fred Burnaby
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385349842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The high Alps in Winter; Or, Mountaineering in Search of Health
Author: Fred Burnaby
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385349842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385349842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The High Alps in Winter
Author: Elizabeth Alice Frances Hawkins-Whitshed Le Blond ("Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond.")
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Category : Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Publisher:
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Category : Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Quarterly literary advertiser
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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The Laboratory of Progress
Author: Joseph Jung
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000624730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the 19th Century tells the improbable story of how a small, backward, mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse, a hub of innovation, a touristic mecca and a pioneer in transportation – all in the course of a single century. That a tiny landlocked country should become a dominant steamship builder for the rest of the world; that a country that had never seen a cotton plant should become the world’s second-largest textile producer; that a country with hardly any level terrain should come to boast the world’s most highly developed railway network; and that a country whose main export was impoverished emigrants should be transformed into one of the world’s major financial centres – these astonishing developments, among many others, are explored and explained, both through the specific stories of individual innovators and through a prescient analysis of the political, economic, societal and cultural structures that formed the context in which Switzerland’s astonishing transformation took place. The book is a compelling read both for professional historians and for general readers with an interest in Switzerland; it highlights the roles of transport networks and individual pioneers in industrial and political development.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000624730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the 19th Century tells the improbable story of how a small, backward, mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse, a hub of innovation, a touristic mecca and a pioneer in transportation – all in the course of a single century. That a tiny landlocked country should become a dominant steamship builder for the rest of the world; that a country that had never seen a cotton plant should become the world’s second-largest textile producer; that a country with hardly any level terrain should come to boast the world’s most highly developed railway network; and that a country whose main export was impoverished emigrants should be transformed into one of the world’s major financial centres – these astonishing developments, among many others, are explored and explained, both through the specific stories of individual innovators and through a prescient analysis of the political, economic, societal and cultural structures that formed the context in which Switzerland’s astonishing transformation took place. The book is a compelling read both for professional historians and for general readers with an interest in Switzerland; it highlights the roles of transport networks and individual pioneers in industrial and political development.
The Pass of Hannibal
Author: Douglas William Freshfield
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Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Languages : en
Pages : 66
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The Alpine Journal
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Category : Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Category : Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Mountain Ascents in Westmoreland and Cumberland
Author: John Barrow
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Category : Lake District (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Category : Lake District (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 896
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 896
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Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
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Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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