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Martyn Lyons

The Pyrenees in the Modern Era

Reinventions of a Landscape, 1775-2012

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This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The book analyses the individual visions of the heroic Pyrenees which in turn fascinated 19th-century mountaineers and the racing cyclists of the early Tour de France. Martyn Lyons also investigates the role of the Pyrenees during the Second World War as an escape route from Nazi-occupied France, when for thousands of refugees these dangerous borderlan… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-350-02479-3
  • EAN: 9781350024793
  • Produktnummer: 25392844
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 280 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 4'644 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


Martyn Lyons is Emeritus Professor of History and European Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe (2012), Books: A Living History (2011) and Post-Revolutionary Europe, 1815-1856 (2006), among other works on revolutionary and Napoleonic France, and on the history of reading practices.

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