Scholar mountaineers
Subtitle: pioneers of Parnassus.
By: With wood-engravings by R. Taylor.
Publisher: Dobson
Published: 1950
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Mountains in literature.; Mountaineering.
Table of contents: title: Heights and depths in Dante.; title: Petrarca alpinista.; title: The sentimentality of Rousseau.; title: De Saussure, pioneer of science.; title: Goethe, the romantic man.; title: The Wordsworths.; title: John Keats.; title: John Ruskin and the aesthetic approach.; title: Leslie Stephen.; title: Nietzsche and modern mountaineering.; title: The religious view and Pope Pius XI.; title: Robert Falcon Scott; the Antarctic tragedy.; title: A short bibliography (p. 163-164)