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- catalog abstract ""Jim Ring tells the remarkable story of the English love affair with the Alps, from its beginnings in the early Romantic movement, when poets such as Byron and Shelley wrote of the mountains with awed delight, through the great days of the 1850s and 1860s and the formation of the Alpine Club, to the inter-war years when the English assured the future prosperity of the alpine resorts by virtually inventing and then popularizing downhill-skiing. It is a story full of rivalries, from the conquest of the Matterhorn in 1865 to the competition between the pioneering travel agents Thomas Cook and Henry Lunn, who opened the Alps to ordinary people and dominated early travel." "Part history, part biography, How the English Made the Alps brings the characters in this saga vividly to life - the artists, scientists and gentleman-adventurers who first explored the Alps, the invalids who flocked there in search of health, and the aristocrats, eccentrics and mountain-scramblers who followed. It suggests that English alpinism was both an expression of and a reaction to Britain's great imperial age - a spirit perfectly embodied by the man who died on Everest and who may have been its first conqueror, George Leigh Mallory."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12020026.
- catalog coverage "Alps History.".
- catalog coverage "Alps Social life and customs.".
- catalog coverage "Switzerland Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Jim Ring tells the remarkable story of the English love affair with the Alps, from its beginnings in the early Romantic movement, when poets such as Byron and Shelley wrote of the mountains with awed delight, through the great days of the 1850s and 1860s and the formation of the Alpine Club, to the inter-war years when the English assured the future prosperity of the alpine resorts by virtually inventing and then popularizing downhill-skiing. It is a story full of rivalries, from the conquest of the Matterhorn in 1865 to the competition between the pioneering travel agents Thomas Cook and Henry Lunn, who opened the Alps to ordinary people and dominated early travel." "Part history, part biography, How the English Made the Alps brings the characters in this saga vividly to life - the artists, scientists and gentleman-adventurers who first explored the Alps, the invalids who flocked there in search of health, and the aristocrats, eccentrics and mountain-scramblers who followed. It suggests that English alpinism was both an expression of and a reaction to Britain's great imperial age - a spirit perfectly embodied by the man who died on Everest and who may have been its first conqueror, George Leigh Mallory."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-272) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 287 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0719556899".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : John Murray,".
- catalog spatial "Alps History.".
- catalog spatial "Alps Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Alps".
- catalog spatial "Switzerland Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Switzerland".
- catalog subject "949.4/7 21".
- catalog subject "British Alps History.".
- catalog subject "British Switzerland History.".
- catalog subject "DQ824 .R56 2000".
- catalog subject "Mountaineering Alps History.".
- catalog title "How the English made the Alps / Jim Ring.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".