Killing Dragons

The Conquest of the Alps

Fergus Fleming (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

448 Seiten

2000
Granta Books (Verlag)
978-1-86207-379-1 (ISBN)

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"Here be dragons" said the old maps. In the late-18th century, a few brave men started to venture up the mountains of Switzerland to discover the secrets hidden in their snowy peaks. They took with them wine and brandy, wore ordinary shoes and had no protective clothing. Then the British arrived: a gallery of strange, obsessive explorers bent on conquering every Alpine summit. "Mountaineering" was born. This is a history of the conquest of the Alps.

Fergus Fleming has written another wonderful book about heroic eccentrics. Reviewing his best-selling Barrows Boys, one of the surprises of 1999, Barry Unsworth instructed his audience Get hold of this book and read it.'

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.10.2000
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 242 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Reisen ► Bildbände ► Europa
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-86207-379-1 / 1862073791
ISBN-13	978-1-86207-379-1 / 9781862073791
Zustand	Neuware