Mountains of the Mind [Audiobook] download free by Robert Macfarlane
- Listen audiobook: Mountains of the Mind
- Author: Robert Macfarlane
- Release date: 2004/12/15
- Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780375714061
- Rating: 7.19 of 10
- Votes: 207
- Review by: Michael Luke
- Review rating: 8.65 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/14
- Duration: 4H8M54S in 256 kbps (64.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-10
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AIFF, MP3, WAV, AC3, Musepack, MPEG4, WMA, FLAC (compression RAR, TZO, ZIP, BZ, TBZ)
- Total pages original book: 324
- Includes a PDF summary of 30 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 22M47S (6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The basis for the new documentary film, Mountain: A Breathtaking Voyage into the Extreme. Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world's highest places has came to grip the Western imagination-and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes. His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the forbidding abodes of dragons and other mysterious beasts. In the mid-1700s the attentions of both science and poetry sparked a passion for mountains; Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lord Byron extolled the sublime experiences to be had on high; and by 1924 the death on Mt Everest of an Englishman named George Mallory came to symbolize the heroic ideals of his day. Macfarlane also reflects on fear, risk, and the shattering beauty of ice and snow, the competition and contemplation of the climb, and the strange alternate reality of high altitude, magically enveloping us in the allure of mountains at every level.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Earth: Natural History General, Mountains, Climbing & Mountaineering, Biography: General
- Download servers: Dropbox, Google Drive, FilesAnywhere, FileServe, Hotfile. Compressed in RAR, TZO, ZIP, BZ, TBZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 18.39 USD
- Dimensions: 129.54x200.66x17.78mm
- Weight: 294.84g
- Printed by: Vintage Books
- Published in: New York, United States
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