Landscapes Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit, (Paperback)

from Eyejaybee

Robert Macfarlane has a great ability to convey his passions without proselytising, and without ever boring readers who don't feel the same degree of obsession. Earlier in the year I read, and was entranced by, his beautiful exploration of ancients routes that have survived into the modern day, "...

from AlisonY

Everyone has their happy place, and for me its the mountains. I'm no climber (I prefer my limbs all in one piece), but there's nowhere I feel more at peace than when I'm taking in the view from a beautiful mountain or hilly peak. In Macfarlane's Mountains of the Mind, he sets out to explain what ...

from kukulaj

The peak is Everest, Mallory on Everest. Our route takes us through Petrarch, Shelley, Johnson... how did we, western culture I suppose, become so fascinated, entranced, by mountains, by climbing up mountains? Macfarlane does a very good job of factoring out the components, curiosity, competition...

from dallenbaugh

Macfarlane explores how the fascination with mountains first developed by noting the history and literature of this subject as well as by describing his own mountain climbing adventures and then ending with the story of Mallory's attempt to climb Mt Everest. He describes Mallory's fascination wit...

from PDCRead

Three centuries ago, no one was interested in mountains and other wild places. The land could not be cultivated, nor was there any point in possessing them and the people who inhabited these heights were considered a lesser human. They were considered no go areas. But in the middle of the Eightee...