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The Alps from End to End
During a life of many and varied interests, the art historian and mountaineer William Martin Conway (1856–1927) served as a professor of art at Liverpool and Cambridge, a member of parliament, director-general of the Imperial War Museum, and president of the Alpine Club. He climbed extensively in Europe and the Himalayas, mapped part of the Karakoram range (for which he was knighted), and named several mountains. In 1894 he walked the length of the Alps accompanied by two Gurkha soldiers. The celebrated expedition took the party sixty-five days to complete. Conway and his companions climbed twenty-one peaks, including Mont Blanc, the Jungfrau and Grossglockner, and traversed thirty-nine mountain passes. Published a year later, this is the illustrated second edition of Conway's popular personal account of the expedition, in which he documents the party's progress on a daily basis.
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The Alps from End to End
During a life of many and varied interests, the art historian and mountaineer William Martin Conway (1856–1927) served as a professor of art at Liverpool and Cambridge, a member of parliament, director-general of the Imperial War Museum, and president of the Alpine Club. He climbed extensively in Europe and the Himalayas, mapped part of the Karakoram range (for which he was knighted), and named several mountains. In 1894 he walked the length of the Alps accompanied by two Gurkha soldiers. The celebrated expedition took the party sixty-five days to complete. Conway and his companions climbed twenty-one peaks, including Mont Blanc, the Jungfrau and Grossglockner, and traversed thirty-nine mountain passes. Published a year later, this is the illustrated second edition of Conway's popular personal account of the expedition, in which he documents the party's progress on a daily basis.
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The Alps from End to End

The Alps from End to End

by William Martin Conway
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The Alps from End to End

The Alps from End to End

by William Martin Conway

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During a life of many and varied interests, the art historian and mountaineer William Martin Conway (1856–1927) served as a professor of art at Liverpool and Cambridge, a member of parliament, director-general of the Imperial War Museum, and president of the Alpine Club. He climbed extensively in Europe and the Himalayas, mapped part of the Karakoram range (for which he was knighted), and named several mountains. In 1894 he walked the length of the Alps accompanied by two Gurkha soldiers. The celebrated expedition took the party sixty-five days to complete. Conway and his companions climbed twenty-one peaks, including Mont Blanc, the Jungfrau and Grossglockner, and traversed thirty-nine mountain passes. Published a year later, this is the illustrated second edition of Conway's popular personal account of the expedition, in which he documents the party's progress on a daily basis.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108054782
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/08/2012
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
Pages: 606
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.34(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introductory; 2. The Maritime Alps; 3. The Cottian Alps; 4. The western Graians; 5. Mont Blanc; 6. The Buet, Chamonix to S. Maurice; 7. The Bernese Oberland, western part, S. Maurice to the Gemmi; 8. Monte Rosa; 9. Bernese Oberland; 10. Uri and Glaurus; 11. Mountain falls; 12. The Rhätikon and Silvretta groups; 13. Oetz and Stubai regions; 14. Zillerthal and Venediger groups; 15. Gross Glockner and eastward; 16. Tirolese scrambles in 1875; 17. A run through the western and central Alps; Index.
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