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050 0 4 _aGV199
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049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aHansen, Peter H.
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245 1 0 _aThe summits of modern man :
_bmountaineering after the enlightenment /
_cPeter H. Hansen.
260 _aCambridge :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c(c)2013.
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIllustrations --
_tCHAPTER ONE Beginnings --
_tCHAPTER TWO Discovery of the Glacières --
_tCHAPTER THREE Ascent and Enfranchisement --
_tCHAPTER FOUR Who Was First? --
_tCHAPTER FIVE Temple of Nature --
_tCHAPTER SIX Social Climbers --
_tCHAPTER SEVEN Age of Conquest --
_tCHAPTER EIGHT History Detectives --
_tCHAPTER NINE Almost Together --
_tCHAPTER TEN Bodies of Ice --
_tAbbreviations --
_tNotes --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIndex.
520 0 _aMountaineering has served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. A fascinating study of the first ascents of the major Alpine peaks and Mt. Everest, The Summits of Modern Man reveals the significance of our encounters with the world's most forbidding heights and how difficult it is to imagine nature in terms other than conquest and domination.
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650 0 _aMountaineering
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMountaineering
_xPhilosophy.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell