Author: Hansen, Peter
Title: The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering After the Enlightenment
Description: Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2013. Hardcover. A casebook with quarter-cloth boards. The boards are two shades of yellow. The title is debossed in shiny blue text down the spine. There is a mint green headband. The front and back free and pasted end pages are a dark yellow. There is a full-color pictorial across the front and back covers, with the text pritned on in white. Pages: (12), 2, 380. The book features many black-and-white illustrations. Mountaineering has served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. A fascinating study of the first ascents of the major Alpine peaks and Mt. Everest, The Summits of Modern Man reveals the significance of our encounters with the world's most forbidding heights and how difficult it is to imagine nature in terms other than conquest and domination. The contents are as follows: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; CHAPTER ONE Beginnings --; CHAPTER TWO Discovery of the Glacières --; CHAPTER THREE Ascent and Enfranchisement --; CHAPTER FOUR Who Was First? --; CHAPTER FIVE Temple of Nature --; CHAPTER SIX Social Climbers --; CHAPTER SEVEN Age of Conquest --; CHAPTER EIGHT History Detectives --; CHAPTER NINE Almost Together --; CHAPTER TEN Bodies of Ice --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index. VG+/VG+: A book and dust jacket in excellent conditioin. Looks like it was rarely, if ever, taken fom the shelf.

Keywords: ; Mountaineering ; ;


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