Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination

Author: Robert Macfarlane

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Price : $24.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781783784509
Publisher : Granta Books
Imprint : Granta Books
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Weight (g) : 0.226
Publication date : 30 September 2017
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 24.99
Availability date : 01 February 2018
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Author : Robert Macfarlane
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Edition : 3
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Mountains of the Mind is a beautifully written synthesis of climbing memoir and cultural history. 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.

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