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2020
This chapter studies the evolution of Alpine climbing in the mid-1800s and examines the ways in which Humboldtian writing and science, the Romantic sublime, and bodily sensations and disruptions shaped perceptions and representations of European forays to Alpine summits.
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This chapter studies the evolution of Alpine climbing in the mid-1800s and examines the ways in which Humboldtian writing and science, the Romantic sublime, and bodily sensations and disruptions shaped perceptions and representations of European forays to Alpine summits.
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Rendiconti Online della Società Geologica Italiana, 2013
In the Southern Apennines and Calabria outcrop metamorphic slices of hercynian and/or alpine age. The reconstructions by Glauco Bonardi and co-authors of an alpine subduction-related origin for the emplacement of those rocks is still supported by a number of tectonic and geodynamic constraints.
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In the Southern Apennines and Calabria outcrop metamorphic slices of hercynian and/or alpine age. The reconstructions by Glauco Bonardi and co-authors of an alpine subduction-related origin for the emplacement of those rocks is still supported by a number of tectonic and geodynamic constraints.
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AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 2004
In the late 19th century, mountaineer and essayist Sir Leslie Stephen wrote that the Alps were "Europe's Playground." His words were prescient: the Alps are today one of the continent's most valued recreation areas. However, the importance of Stephen's words can only be appreciated when set in historical context.
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In the late 19th century, mountaineer and essayist Sir Leslie Stephen wrote that the Alps were "Europe's Playground." His words were prescient: the Alps are today one of the continent's most valued recreation areas. However, the importance of Stephen's words can only be appreciated when set in historical context.
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Blackfriars, 1927
The great lines of the Alps, and their sweet perfumes and haunting voices, reach the mind through the senses, and the mind in its impotence deals with them in a succession of images. Mont Blanc is a tidal wave that never falls, the crash for ever imminent above the valley; you watch it and feel that the very next moment it will surge forward and curl ...
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The great lines of the Alps, and their sweet perfumes and haunting voices, reach the mind through the senses, and the mind in its impotence deals with them in a succession of images. Mont Blanc is a tidal wave that never falls, the crash for ever imminent above the valley; you watch it and feel that the very next moment it will surge forward and curl ...
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Timberline Reconstruction in Alpes de Haute Provence and Alpes Maritimes, Southern French Alps
Arctic and Alpine Research, 1978Owing to very extensive reafforestation ef- human conditions affecting timberline are forts in the middle of the last century, high- classed according to their relative imporaltitude forests have been reestablished and tance. The main controlling factor is temtimberline has been reconstructed in the perature of the growing season.
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2013
Following the precedent and standards set by the Baedeker guides, travel literature enjoyed great popularity during the later nineteenth century. This guidebook to the Alps, written by Hermann Alexander Berlepsch (1814?–83) and translated from German by the renowned author and mountaineer Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), was first published in English in ...
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Following the precedent and standards set by the Baedeker guides, travel literature enjoyed great popularity during the later nineteenth century. This guidebook to the Alps, written by Hermann Alexander Berlepsch (1814?–83) and translated from German by the renowned author and mountaineer Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), was first published in English in ...
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