How the English Made the Alps - Hardcover

Ring, Jim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719556899 ISBN 13: 9780719556890

Verlag: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2000

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Book by Ring Jim

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As the British Empire spread accross the globe during the 19th century, another quieter conquest was going on much nearer to home: grdually the English were taking over the Alps. This text explores the story of the English love affair with the Alps, from its beginnings in the early Romantic movement, through the days of the 1850s and 1860s and the formation of the Alpine Club, to the inter-war years when the English assured the future prosperity of the alpine resorts by virtually inventing and then popularizing downhill-skiing.;Part history and part biography, the volume examines the artists, scientists, gentlemen-adventurers, invalids, and the aristocrats and eccentrics who all flocked to the Alps.

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• Verlag: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0719556899
• ISBN 13: 9780719556890
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 298