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Peter H. Hansen
Summits of Modern Man [EPUB ebook]
Mountaineering after the Enlightenment

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Mountaineering has served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. A fascinating study of the first ascents of the major Alpine peaks and Mt. Everest, The Summits of Modern Man reveals the significance of our encounters with the world s most forbidding heights and how difficult it is to imagine nature in terms other than conquest and domination.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 392 ● ISBN 9780674074521 ● Publisher Harvard University Press ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2681052 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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