Students and tutors started going here on reading parties in the 1890s, and still do so. Looks at Macmillan, Hailsham, Brooke, Betjeman, Waugh etc…
Oxford University on Mont Blanc: The Life of the Chalet des Anglais
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£30.00
Edition:Hardback978180081217816/06/2022From a Bookshelf nearby
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The Bulgarian/Scottish writer explores the mountainous fringe of North Macedonia, Albania and Greece along the via Egnatia (which, astonishingly, joined the via Appia to link Rome with Byzan... read more
To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace
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The Swedish dynamo has many hard borders to negotiate as she tries to travel the length of the southern watershed of the Himalayas.
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The first two of Pearson's graphic novels reissued in one volume. For anyone who has missed her, Hilda is a valiant young Scandinavian girl with blue hair and a predilection for trolls. Nort... read more
Hilda: The Wilderness Stories
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Breathtaking shots from the Himalayas to the Dolomites, via Africa, Patagonia, Alaska... with suitably lofty quotations (Dante, Byron, Austen, Nietzsche et al) alongside them.
Mountains: The Giants of the Earth
Hardback £42.00