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Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering - Hardcover

Isserman, Maurice

 
9780393068504: Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393068501 ISBN 13: 9780393068504
Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Continental DivideClimbing began in North America as a pursuit for lone eccentrics but grew to become a mass-participation sport. Beginning with Darby Field in 1642, the first person to climb a mountain in North America, Isserman describes the exploration and first ascents of the major American mountain ranges, from the Appalachians to Alaska. He also profiles the most important American mountaineers, including such figures as John C. Frémont, John Muir, Annie Peck, Bradford Washburn, Charlie Houston, and Bob Bates, relating their exploits both at home and abroad.Isserman traces the evolving social, cultural, and political roles mountains played in shaping the country. He describes how American mountaineers forged a "brotherhood of the rope," modeled on America s unique democratic self-image that characterized climbing in the years leading up to and immediately following World War II. And he underscores the impact of the postwar "rucksack revolution," including the advances in technique and style made by pioneering "dirtbag" rock climbers.Continental Divide

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Maurice Isserman is the author of Continental Divide and coauthor of Fallen Giants, a history of Himalayan mountaineering that won the prestigious Banff Prize for best mountaineering history in 2008, as well as that year’s National Outdoor Book Award. He is Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.

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Verlag
W W NORTON & CO
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393068501
ISBN 13 
9780393068504
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
448
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