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380 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674047990
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 14 May 2013
Description
The history of mountaineering has long served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. Once upon a time, the Alps were an inaccessible habitat of specters and dragons, until heroic men--pioneers of enlightenment--scaled their summits, classified...
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380 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674047990
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 14 May 2013
Description
The history of mountaineering has long served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. Once upon a time, the Alps were an inaccessible habitat of specters and dragons, until heroic men--pioneers of enlightenment--scaled their summits, classified...