A Pioneer in the High Alps
Author | : Francis Fox Tuckett |
Publisher | : London, Edward Arnold |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Alps |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Francis Fox Tuckett |
Publisher | : London, Edward Arnold |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Alps |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jon Mathieu |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2019-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1509527745 |
Stretching 1,200 kilometres across six countries, the colossal mountains of the Alps dominate Europe, geographically and historically. Enlightenment thinkers felt the sublime and magisterial peaks were the very embodiment of nature, Romantic poets looked to them for divine inspiration, and Victorian explorers tested their ingenuity and courage against them. Located at the crossroads between powerful states, the Alps have played a crucial role in the formation of European history, a place of intense cultural fusion as well as fierce conflict between warring nations. A diverse range of flora and fauna have made themselves at home in this harsh environment, which today welcomes over 100 million tourists a year. Leading Alpine scholar Jon Mathieu tells the story of the people who have lived in and been inspired by these mountains and valleys, from the ancient peasants of the Neolithic to the cyclists of the Tour de France. Far from being a remote and backward corner of Europe, the Alps are shown by Mathieu to have been a crucible of new ideas and technologies at the heart of the European story.
Author | : William Spotswood Green |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Aoraki/Mount Cook (N.Z.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kev Reynolds |
Publisher | : Cicerone Press Limited |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2011-07-21 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1849654387 |
The second edition of this classic guidebook by Kev Reynolds on walking and trekking in the Alps. This book is a definitive guide to the many thousands of possible routes, with a geographical span that ranges from the Maritime Alps of southern France to the Julians of Slovenia, from Italy's Gran Paradiso to the little-known Türnitzer Alps of eastern Austria, and from the ice-bound giants of the Bernese Oberland to the green rolling Kitzbüheler Alps and the bizarre towers of the Dolomites of South Tirol, showing the amazing diversity of this wonderful mountain chain. There are walks to suit every taste: gentle and undemanding, long and tough, and everything in between. Written by Britain's most respected authority on the Alps, this is a fully updated edition of this important book.
Author | : Richard William Cox |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780719025921 |
Author | : Richard William Cox |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Athletes |
ISBN | : 9780714652528 |
Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Author | : Laszlo Nagy |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3642189679 |
The United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, spawned a multitude of pro grammes aimed at assessing, managing and conserving the earth's biological diversity. One important issue addressed at the conference was the mountain environment. A specific feature of high mountains is the so-called alpine zone, i. e. the treeless regions at the uppermost reaches. Though covering only a very small proportion of the land surface, the alpine zone contains a rela tively large number of plants, animals, fungi and microbes which are specifi cally adapted to cold environments. This zone contributes fundamentally to the planet's biodiversity and provides many resources for mountain dwelling as well as lowland people. However, rapid and largely man-made changes are affecting mountain ecosystems, such as soil erosion, losses of habitat and genetic diversity, and climate change, all of which have to be addressed. As stated in the European Community Biodiversity Strategy, "the global scale of biodiversity reduction or losses and the interdependence of different species and ecosystems across national borders demands concerted international action". Managing biodiversity in a rational and sustainable way needs basic knowledge on its qualitative and quantitative aspects at local, regional and global scales. This is particularly true for mountains, which are distributed throughout the world and are indeed hot spots of biodiversity in absolute terms as well as relative to the surrounding lowlands.