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Mountains So Sublime
Terry Abraham
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Paperback. Features description of the Rocky Mountain West by British adventurers, poets, and journalists. Num Pages: 248 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 190 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360.
Picturesque, ""immense"", ""fantastic"", and ""sublime"" are a few of the ways early British travellers described the landscape of the Rocky Mountains and the surrounding terrain. As part of a long tradition of British travellers' tales, these tourists, explorers, sportsmen, writers, scientists, artists, missionaries, and merchants, sought ways to describe the vastness and strangeness of the North American landscape to a British audience.
Picturesque, ""immense"", ""fantastic"", and ""sublime"" are a few of the ways early British travellers described the landscape of the Rocky Mountains and the surrounding terrain. As part of a long tradition of British travellers' tales, these tourists, explorers, sportsmen, writers, scientists, artists, missionaries, and merchants, sought ways to describe the vastness and strangeness of the North American landscape to a British audience.
Using their published and unpublished accounts as source material, Mountains So Sublime weaves their observations, their aesthetic, and their 'Britishness' into a unique view of a nearly vanished West. Attempting to make their West real to their readers, ... Read more
The British were among those who cautioned against excessive human encroachment on the landscape, demonstrating what might be called ""environmental pre-awareness"". Today's readers will discover perhaps surprising parallels between modern environmental and conservation issues and the concerns expressed by these early travellers.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Calgary Press Canada
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Calgary, Canada
ISBN
9781552381816
SKU
V9781552381816
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About Terry Abraham
Terry Abraham, a native of Oregon, has lived in Idaho since 1970. In 2005, he retired after twenty-one years as Head of Special Collections and Archives at the University of Idaho.
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