Author: Forbes, James D.
Title: NORWAY AND ITS GLACIERS Visited in 1851; Followed by Journals of Excursions in the High Alps of Dauphiné, Berne, and Savoy.
Description: Edinburgh Adam and Charles Black, 1853. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xxiv + 349pp. 2 maps including 1 folding, 10 tinted litho. views, 22 wood engravings. Some browning, modern e.ps., original blind embossed boards, some marking, rebacked in modern cloth with part of original gilt lettered spine laid down. ¶ James David Forbes (1809–1868), physicist and geologist. ODNB ‘ ... Forbes spent four months the following year conducting experiments on the Swiss glaciers to be followed by further visits in subsequent years and in 1851 a tour of the glaciers of Norway. The result was a stream of some forty publications on the subject over the next twenty years. The chief of these were Travels through the Alps of Savoy (1843), [the above], and a collection of his most important glacier papers, Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers (1859) ...’ Neate F44. ‘Although Forbes visited Norway primarily in the course of his scientific researches into glaciers his book was regarded as a great classic by Cecil Slingsby, the ‘Father’ of Norwegian mountaineering.’

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