Author : Spiegel Stefan
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 2021-08
Category :
ISBN : 9783946719328
Book of the Alps
Spiegel Stefan
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Apostles of the Alps
Tait Keller
Author : Tait Keller
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1469625040
Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countries, as people sought respite in the mountains, transformed and shaped them according to their needs, and over time began to view them as national symbols and icons of individualism. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Alps were regarded as a place of solace from industrial development and the stresses of urban life. Soon, however, mountaineers, or the so-called apostles of the Alps, began carving the crags to suit their whims, altering the natural landscape with trails and lodges, and seeking to modernize and nationalize the high frontier. Disagreements over the meaning of modernization opened the mountains to competing agendas and hostile ambitions. Keller examines the ways in which these opposing approaches corresponded to the political battles, social conflicts, culture wars, and environmental crusades that shaped modern Germany and Austria, placing the Alpine borderlands at the heart of the German question of nationhood.
The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond
Stephen O'Shea
Author : Stephen O'Shea
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0393634191
“An entertaining, turbocharged race among the high mountain passes of six alpine countries.” —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review For centuries the Alps have been witness to the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers, and the dreams of engineers. In The Alps, Stephen O’Shea ("a graceful and passionate writer"—Washington Post) takes readers up and down these majestic mountains. Journeying through their 500-mile arc across France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, and Slovenia, he explores the reality behind historic events and reveals how the Alps have profoundly influenced culture and society.
Crossing the Alps
Lorenzo Zamboni
Author : Lorenzo Zamboni
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 2020-12-18
Category :
ISBN : 9789088909610
This is the first comprehensive overview on Iron Age urbanism south and north of the Alps.
The Alps
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN :
"Wonderful and awesome the Alps indeed are - a broken barrier of snow-frosted peaks stretching across Europe from France to Yugoslavia."--Jacket.
The Alps
Jon Mathieu
Author : Jon Mathieu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1509527745
Stretching 1,200 kilometres across six countries, the colossal mountains of the Alps dominate Europe, geographically and historically. Enlightenment thinkers felt the sublime and magisterial peaks were the very embodiment of nature, Romantic poets looked to them for divine inspiration, and Victorian explorers tested their ingenuity and courage against them. Located at the crossroads between powerful states, the Alps have played a crucial role in the formation of European history, a place of intense cultural fusion as well as fierce conflict between warring nations. A diverse range of flora and fauna have made themselves at home in this harsh environment, which today welcomes over 100 million tourists a year. Leading Alpine scholar Jon Mathieu tells the story of the people who have lived in and been inspired by these mountains and valleys, from the ancient peasants of the Neolithic to the cyclists of the Tour de France. Far from being a remote and backward corner of Europe, the Alps are shown by Mathieu to have been a crucible of new ideas and technologies at the heart of the European story.
Walking in the Alps
Kev Reynolds
Author : Kev Reynolds
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1849654387
The second edition of this classic guidebook by Kev Reynolds on walking and trekking in the Alps. This book is a definitive guide to the many thousands of possible routes, with a geographical span that ranges from the Maritime Alps of southern France to the Julians of Slovenia, from Italy's Gran Paradiso to the little-known Türnitzer Alps of eastern Austria, and from the ice-bound giants of the Bernese Oberland to the green rolling Kitzbüheler Alps and the bizarre towers of the Dolomites of South Tirol, showing the amazing diversity of this wonderful mountain chain. There are walks to suit every taste: gentle and undemanding, long and tough, and everything in between. Written by Britain's most respected authority on the Alps, this is a fully updated edition of this important book.
Trekking in the Alps
Kev Reynolds
Author : Kev Reynolds
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1849653798
An inspirational larger format guidebook to 20 summer treks in the Alps across Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France and Slovenia, including the classics such as the Tour of Mont Blanc and lesser-known routes like the Traverse of the Slovenian Alps. Perfect for planning, the treks included are: Tour of Mont Blanc, Tour of the Matterhorn, Tour of Monte Rosa, Walker's Haute Route, Tour of the Jungfrau Region, Tour of the Vanoise and Dolomites AV 1 & 2; (longer trans-Alpine routes) GR5 (Lake Geneva to Nice), Eastern Alps E5, Italian Alps GTA and the Traverse of the Slovenian Alps; and (for the Alpine adventurer) Alpine Pass Route, Tour of the Oisans, Tour of the Queyras, Tour of Mont Ruan, Stubai High Route, Zillertal High Route, Gran Paradiso AV2 and the Ratikon Hoehenweg. Outline schedules for each trek allow you compare the routes and become inspired to take up the challenge. Basic day-by-day route descriptions for each route are illustrated with maps and profiles, helping you choose the best routes to walk.
The Alps
Lorenz Andreas Fischer
Author : Lorenz Andreas Fischer
Publisher : TeNeues
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9783961712632
A stunning photography book of the Alps at different times of day, seasons, and amid climate change Spectacular mountain photography showing the beauty, as well as the fragility, of the highest mountains in Central Europe With informative and inspiring texts by mountain experts and aficionados
Views from the Alps
Peter Cebon
Author : Peter Cebon
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262032520
Although climate change is a global problem, there is growing recognition of the need to look at its regional manifestations and management. This book takes such an approach to the Alpine region. The result of the ongoing Swiss research program Climate and Environment in the Alpine Region [Clear], it incorporates the work of an independent network of approximately fifty researchers from a variety of disciplines.