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Mountains of the Mind Adventures in Reaching the Summit

Examining the influence of mountains on the human imagination and spirit, an accomplished climber explains why individuals are drawn to mountains, both as a source of remarkable beauty and as a challenge that must be overcome.

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  • "Examining the influence of mountains on the human imagination and spirit, an accomplished climber explains why individuals are drawn to mountains, both as a source of remarkable beauty and as a challenge that must be overcome."@en
  • "Examining the influence of mountains on the human imagination and spirit, an accomplished climber explains why individuals are drawn to mountains, both as a source of remarkable beauty and as a challenge that must be overcome."
  • "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 imagination'and 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. From the Trade Paperback edition."

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  • "Come le montagne conquistarono gli uomini : storia di una passione"
  • "Come le montagne conquistarono gli uomini : storia di una passione"@it
  • "Las montañas de la mente historia de una fascinación Robert Macfarlane ; traducción, Concha Cardeñoso Sáenz de Miera"@es
  • "Las montañas de la mente : historia de una fascinación"@es
  • "Las montañas de la mente : historia de una fascinación"
  • "Montanhas da mente : história de um fascínio"
  • "Mountains of the mind : [how desolate and forbidding heights were transformed into experiences of indomitable spirit]"
  • "Mountains of the mind adventures in reaching the summit"
  • "Mountains of the Mind Adventures in Reaching the Summit"@en
  • "Mountains of the mind adventures in reaching the summit"@en
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  • "Mountains of the mind"
  • "Las Montañas de la mente : historia de una fascinación"
  • "Mountains of the mind : adventures in reaching the summit"@en
  • "Berge im Kopf : die Geschichte einer Faszination"

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