Killing Dragons
The Conquest of the Alps
In a riveting narrative of daredevils and eccentrics, Fergus Fleming gives us the breathtaking story of some of history's greatest explorers as they conquer the soaring peaks of the Alps. Fleming recounts the incredible exploits of the men whose centuries-old fear of the mountain range turned quickly to curiosity, then to obsession, as they explored Europe's frozen wilderness. In the late eighteenth century French and Swiss scientists became interested in the Alps as a research destination, but in the 1850s the focus changed: the icy mountains now offered an all-out competition for British climbers who wanted to conquer ever higher and more i…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8021-9754-2
- EAN: 9780802197542
- Produktnummer: 31916146
- Verlag: Atlantic Monthly Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Fergus Fleming was born in 1959 and studied at Oxford University and City University. He was a writer and editor at Time Life Books for six years before becoming a freelance writer in 1991.
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