This book is the first transnational history of rambling and mountaineering. Focussing on the critical turn-of-the-century era, it offers new insights into alpi
The Alps have exerted a hold over the German cultural imagination throughout the modern period, enthralling writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and tour
Focusing on extreme environments, from Umberto Nobile’s expedition to the Arctic to the commercialization of Mt Everest, this volume examines global environme
Today, the environment seems omnipresent in European policy within and beyond the European Union. The idea of a shared European environment, however, has come a
Throughout the longue dureé of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real experience? In wha
