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Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination (Paperback)
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Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination (Paperback)

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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.

Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781783784509
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 226 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm

A British author and academic, Robert Macfarlane is an author of prize-winning books on the themes of memory, landscape, nature, environmentalism and travel and regularly writes for publications including the Guardian and the Times. His first book, Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His other works include, The Old Ways, Landmarks and The Lost Words, a children’s book of nature spells created in partnership with artist Jackie Morris.

Robert Macfarlane is Reader in Literature and the Geohumanities in the Faculty of English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His forthcoming book about subterranean spaces and deep time, Underland, will be published in 2019.

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“A Fascinating History”

This book takes you inside the minds of people who risk their lives climbing mountains and by the end of it I could feel the attraction of these wild places and was ready to set off myself. A wonderful cultural... More

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