Scholar mountaineers : pioneers of Parnassus / Wilfrid Noyce ; with wood-engravings by R. Taylor
1950, First Edition. London : Dennis Dobson Ltd. Near fine cloth copy in a good if slightly edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #449183
Physical description; 164 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm. Notes; Wood-engravings by R. Taylor. Contents; Heights and depths in Dante.--Petrarca alpinista.--The sentimentality of Rousseau.--De Saussure, pioneer of science.--Goethe, the romantic man.--The Wordsworths.--John Keats.--John Ruskin and the aesthetic approach.--Leslie Stephen.--Nietzsche and modern mountaineering.--The religious view and Pope Pius XI.--Robert Falcon Scott; the Antarctic tragedy.--A short bibliography (p. 163-164). Subjects; Mountains in literature. Mountaineering. Mountaineers. Authors and mountains. Literature and mountaineering.
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