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9780375714061

Mountains of the Mind Adventures in Reaching the Summit

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    9780375714061

  • ISBN10:

    0375714065

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-07-13
  • Publisher: Vintage

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Summary

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 imaginationand 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.

Author Biography

Robert Macfarlane was born in 1976. He is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and he contributes to the Observer, the <i>Times Literary Supplement</i>, and the <i>London Review of Books</i>, among other publications. <b>Mountains of the Mind</b> is his first book.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>

Table of Contents

1 Possession 1(21)
2 The Great Stone Book 22(44)
3 The Pursuit of Fear 66(37)
4 Glaciers and Ice: the Streams of Time 103(34)
5 Altitude: the Summit and the View 137(31)
6 Walking off the Map 168(31)
7 A New Heaven and a New Earth 199(25)
8 Everest 224(50)
9 The Snow Hare 274(6)
Acknowledgements 280(3)
Selected List of Sources 283(9)
Index 292

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