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Contact: Mountain Climbing And Environmental Thinking
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Description for Contact: Mountain Climbing And Environmental Thinking
Paperback. Mountain climbing is a relatively new sport in human history. Until the eighteenth century, mountains were considered inhospitable, even evil. This work explores our changing attitudes toward mountains and the natural world. It also illuminates the spectrum of human attitudes toward mountains and the environment. Editor(s): McCarthy, Jeffrey Mathes. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.
Mountain climbing is a relatively new sport in human history. Until the eighteenth century, mountains were considered inhospitable, even evil. It was the Romantics who taught us to feel a new awe and admiration for the alpine world. Since then, most of the world's mountains have been climbed. Climbers experience the natural world in some of its harshest conditions, and from each climber, each climb, come fresh appraisals of the connection between humans and nature.The twenty-three climbing narratives collected and contexualized by Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy in ""Contact"" explore our changing attitudes toward mountains and the natural world. These stories - ... Read more
Mountain climbing is a relatively new sport in human history. Until the eighteenth century, mountains were considered inhospitable, even evil. It was the Romantics who taught us to feel a new awe and admiration for the alpine world. Since then, most of the world's mountains have been climbed. Climbers experience the natural world in some of its harshest conditions, and from each climber, each climb, come fresh appraisals of the connection between humans and nature.The twenty-three climbing narratives collected and contexualized by Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy in ""Contact"" explore our changing attitudes toward mountains and the natural world. These stories - ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874177466
SKU
V9780874177466
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About
Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy is chair of Environmental Studies and associate professor of English at Westminster College. He has climbed mountains in Asia, Africa, and Europe, and his work has been published in academic journals and climbing magazines.
Reviews for Contact: Mountain Climbing And Environmental Thinking
"What McCarthy does here is to create a paradigm for examining the impact humans have in even the most remote corners of the globe." - Mikel Vause, author of Peering over the Edge: The Philosophy of Mountaineering "This book carves a unique spot in literature by asking eco-critical scholars to give mountaineering literature/culture more attention. Moreover, it is an important ... Read more