Mountains of the Mind

Name: Mountains of the Mind
SKU: 9781783784509
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Since they were once avoided at all costs, how have mountains, in the space of three centuries, come to exert such a strange and sometimes fatal hold on the imagination, moving millions every year to risk their lives? The author of this engaging book seeks to answer these questions.

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SKU: 9781783784509 Category: Travel Writing Tags: Climbing & mountaineering, Mountains, Natural history

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WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARDOnce we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. In this ground-breaking, classic work, Robert Macfarlane takes us up into the mountains: to experience their shattering beauty, the fear and risk of adventure, and to explore the strange impulses that have for centuries lead us to the world’s highest places.

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Weight	0.214 kg
Dimensions	19.8 × 12.9 × 1.9 cm
Author	Macfarlane, Robert
Publisher	Granta Books
Imprint	Granta Books
Cover	Paperback
Pages	306
Language	English
Edition
Dewey	796.522019 (edition:23)
Readership	General – Trade / Code: K