Mountains of the Mind

Mountains of the Mind
Author: Robert Macfarlane
Publisher: Granta
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2009-07-02
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1847081576
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WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once 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.


Mountains of the Mind
Language: en
Pages: 324

Mountains of the Mind

Authors: Robert Macfarlane
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-02 - Publisher: Granta

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WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were rac
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Language: en
Pages: 496

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Authors: Robert Macfarlane
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-04 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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National Bestseller • New York Times “100 Notable Books of the Year” • NPR “Favorite Books of 2019” • Guardian “100 Best Books of the 21st Centu
The Wild Places
Language: en
Pages: 229

The Wild Places

Authors: Robert Macfarlane
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-02 - Publisher: Granta Books

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Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, ins
Landmarks
Language: en
Pages: 448

Landmarks

Authors: Robert Macfarlane
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-05 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016 Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape a
Reading the Mountains of Home
Language: en
Pages: 284

Reading the Mountains of Home

Authors: John Elder
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple