Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit
Robert MacFarlane
The basis for the new documentary film, Mountain: A Breathtaking Voyage into the Extreme. Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world's highest places has came to grip the Western imagination--and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes. His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the forbidding abodes of dragons and other mysterious beasts. In the mid-1700s the attentions of both science and poetry sparked a passion for mountains; Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lord Byron extolled the sublime experiences to be had on high; and by 1924 the death on Mt Everest of an Englishman named George Mallory came to symbolize the heroic ideals of his day. Macfarlane also reflects on fear, risk, and the shattering beauty of ice and snow, the competition and contemplation of the climb, and the strange alternate reality of high altitude, magically enveloping us in the allure of mountains at every level.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Robert MacFarlanePublisher: VintagePublished: 07/13/2004ISBN: 9780375714061Pages: 320Weight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70dReview Citations: Kliatt 09/01/2005 pg. 43New York Times 08/01/2004 pg. 16
Book Title
Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit
ISBN
9780375714061
The basis for the new documentary film, Mountain: A Breathtaking Voyage into the Extreme. Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world's highest places has came to grip the Western imagination--and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes.
His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the forbidding abodes of dragons and other mysterious beasts. In the mid-1700s the attentions of both science and poetry sparked a passion for mountains; Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lord Byron extolled the sublime experiences to be had on high; and by 1924 the death on Mt Everest of an Englishman named George Mallory came to symbolize the heroic ideals of his day. Macfarlane also reflects on fear, risk, and the shattering beauty of ice and snow, the competition and contemplation of the climb, and the strange alternate reality of high altitude, magically enveloping us in the allure of mountains at every level.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Robert MacFarlane
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/13/2004
ISBN: 9780375714061
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Review Citations: Kliatt 09/01/2005 pg. 43
New York Times 08/01/2004 pg. 16
His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the forbidding abodes of dragons and other mysterious beasts. In the mid-1700s the attentions of both science and poetry sparked a passion for mountains; Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lord Byron extolled the sublime experiences to be had on high; and by 1924 the death on Mt Everest of an Englishman named George Mallory came to symbolize the heroic ideals of his day. Macfarlane also reflects on fear, risk, and the shattering beauty of ice and snow, the competition and contemplation of the climb, and the strange alternate reality of high altitude, magically enveloping us in the allure of mountains at every level.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Robert MacFarlane
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/13/2004
ISBN: 9780375714061
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Review Citations: Kliatt 09/01/2005 pg. 43
New York Times 08/01/2004 pg. 16
The basis for the new documentary film, Mountain: A Breathtaking Voyage into the Extreme. Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world's highest places has came to grip the Western imagination--and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes.
His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the forbidding abodes of dragons and other mysterious beasts. In the mid-1700s the attentions of both science and poetry sparked a passion for mountains; Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lord Byron extolled the sublime experiences to be had on high; and by 1924 the death on Mt Everest of an Englishman named George Mallory came to symbolize the heroic ideals of his day. Macfarlane also reflects on fear, risk, and the shattering beauty of ice and snow, the competition and contemplation of the climb, and the strange alternate reality of high altitude, magically enveloping us in the allure of mountains at every level.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Robert MacFarlane
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/13/2004
ISBN: 9780375714061
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Review Citations: Kliatt 09/01/2005 pg. 43
New York Times 08/01/2004 pg. 16
His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the forbidding abodes of dragons and other mysterious beasts. In the mid-1700s the attentions of both science and poetry sparked a passion for mountains; Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lord Byron extolled the sublime experiences to be had on high; and by 1924 the death on Mt Everest of an Englishman named George Mallory came to symbolize the heroic ideals of his day. Macfarlane also reflects on fear, risk, and the shattering beauty of ice and snow, the competition and contemplation of the climb, and the strange alternate reality of high altitude, magically enveloping us in the allure of mountains at every level.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Robert MacFarlane
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/13/2004
ISBN: 9780375714061
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Review Citations: Kliatt 09/01/2005 pg. 43
New York Times 08/01/2004 pg. 16