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Killing Dragons The Conquest of the Alps
by Fleming, Fergus
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 087113778X
- ISBN 13
- 9780871137784
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 087113778x . About new book, unmarked, in barely rubbed DJ. ; 1.5 x 9.1 x 5.9 Inches; 398 pages; The soaring mountains of the Alps have inspired and challenged some of the greatest explorers in history. For centuries, however, Europeans shunned the peaks, fearing them to be realms of icy terror, inhospitable regions that harbored dragons, demons, witches, and all sorts of alien beings. Yet their fear eventually turned to curiosity, and in Killing Dragons Fergus Fleming recounts the incredible exploits of the men who explored Europe's frozen wilderness. The adventures began in the late eighteenth century, when French and Swiss scientists tackled the peaks, seeking knowledge of the atmosphere, the earth's origins, and glaciers. In the 1850s, this scientific pursuit became an obsessive competition as British climbers vied with one another to conquer ever higher and more impossible mountains. They fought each other on the peaks and in the press, entertaining a vast public smitten with their bravery, delighted by their personal animosities, and horrified by the disasters that befell them. The great mountains fell one by one to these climbers, while the glaciers accumulated a store of mangled bodies. The conquest of the Alps, a central chapter in the history of mountaineering, is a hair-raising and thrillingly eccentric tale, captured here by a remarkable storyteller. .
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- Bookseller
- B-Line Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22214
- Title
- Killing Dragons The Conquest of the Alps
- Author
- Fleming, Fergus
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 087113778X
- ISBN 13
- 9780871137784
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- 087113778x, Switzerland, Europe, History, Books, Western, 19th Century, World, Europe, Travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports/Recreation;
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B-Line Books
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Amherst, Nova Scotia
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B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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