Author: Thomas Woodbine HinchliffPublisher:
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Category : Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Summer Months Among the Alps
Author: Thomas Woodbine HinchliffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Literature
Author: Henry Duff TraillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Literature
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World
Author: Françoise BessonPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527554031
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
The essays in this book, written by poets, novelists, mountain-climbers and academics from all over the world, evoke the representation of mountains in the English-speaking world as artists, writers, philosophers or mountain-climbers have represented them from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the Alps to the Pyrenees, from Mount Fuji to Mount Shasta, from the Himalayas to the Scottish Highlands, from Ikere in Nigeria to Devil's Tower in the United States, from Uluru in Australia to the most northern mountain of the Arctic, the shapes of the world speak the same language and tell the world its own story. This interdisciplinary book, weaving together mountaineering, literature, philosophy, painting, cinema, ecology, history, palaeontology, geography, geopolitics, toponymy, law, religion and myth, invites people to an innovative reading of mountains: it reveals the close relationship existing between the shapes of the world and all forms of writing and, at the same time, it shows how the representations of the imagination may be instrumental in protecting the natural world. The story told by the landscape inscribes a broken line in the shapes of the world, tearing the landscape like a fragile page whenever historical and political events (wars, mining or deforestation) leave scars in the landscape; but writers' and artists' representations of mountains constitute a path to awareness as they are not only a painting of beauty, but an image of our link to nature and a warning as well. For centuries the image of the mountain has conveyed a symbolism telling the story of human thought, and this book shows to what extent literature and art play an essential part in our awareness of nature.
The Universal review
Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 914
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A Handbook for Travellers in Sicily
Author: George DennisPublisher:
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Category : Sicily (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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The Works of John Ruskin: Deucalion, and other studies in rocks and stones
Author: John RuskinPublisher:
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Category : Art critics
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Volume 1-35, works. Volume 36-37, letters. Volume 38 provides an extensive bibliography of Ruskin's writings and a catalogue of his drawings, with corrections to earlier volumes in George Allen's Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin. Volume 39, general index.
Recent Improvements in the Steam-engine
Author: John Bourne (C. E.)Publisher:
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Category : Steam engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Catalogues of Books for Sale by E.W. Stibbs
Author: E. W. StibbsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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