Download or read book The Alps written by Jon Mathieu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Alpine Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Alps written by Andrew Beattie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alps are Europe's highest mountain range: their broad arc stretches right across the center of the continent, encompassing a wide range of traditions and cultures. Andrew Beattie explores the turbulent past and vibrant present of this landscape, where early pioneers of tourism, mountaineering, and scientific research, along with the enduring legacies of historical regimes from the Romans to the Nazis, have all left their mark.

Download or read book A Pioneer in the High Alps written by Francis Fox Tuckett and published by London, Edward Arnold. This book was released on 1920 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Switzerland the Pioneer of the Reformation written by comtesse Dora d' Istria and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Historic background and annals of the Swiss and German pioneer settlers of southeastern Pennsylvania and of their remote ancestors from the middle of the dark ages down to the time of the revolutionary war an authentic history from original sources with particular reference to the German Swiss Mennonites or Anabaptists the Amish and other nonresistant sects written by H. Frank Eshleman and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1917-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book How the English Made the Alps written by Jim Ring and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For English read British which is not to quibble with the title but, as Jim Ring himself explains, 'During the period on which this book focuses, it was the custom - in the words of a Scot - ''to let the part - the larger part - speak for the whole.'' Those countries which received them - France, Italy, Austria, Germany, and above all Switzerland - all talked of the English, and the presence of the English in the Alps was precisely so described. To use the term British would thus have been an anachronism.' The nineteenth century will forever be associated with the growth of the British Empire, but nearer home there was a quieter conquest taking place. Gradually the English were taking over the Alps, scaling their peaks, driving railways through them, and introducing both winter sports and those quintessential English institutions - tea, baths, lawn tennis and churches - to remote mountain villages. Jim Ring tells the remarkable story of the English love affair with the Alps, from its beginnings with the Romantic movement, when poets such as Byron and Shelly wrote of the mountains with awed delight, through the great days of the 1850s and 1860s and the formation of the Alpine Club, to the inter-war years when the English assured the future prosperity of the alpine resorts by virtually inventing and then popularizing downhill-skiing. Part history, part biography, How the English made the Alps brings the characters - the artists, the scientists, the gentleman-adventurers, the invalids, the aristocrats, eccentrics and mountain-scramblers - vividly to life. 'Jim Rings's book cannot be bettered.' Daily Mail 'Fascinating' Stephen Venables, Daily Telegraph 'Evocative and entertaining' Financial Times 'A comprehensive, well-written account of a fascinating subject' Guardian

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Download or read book Switzerland the Pioneer of the Reformation Or La Suisse Allemande Translated from the French and Comprising the Chapter Suppressed by Order of the Imperial Government in the Parisian Edition of the Work by H G written by Princess Elena Mikhailovna KOL'TSOVA-MASAL'SKAYA and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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