Mountains of the mind : a history of a fascination / Robert Macfarlane.

London : Granta, 2017.

306 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm

Originally published: 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Since they were once avoided at all costs, how have mountains, in the space of three centuries, come to exert such a strange and sometimes fatal hold on the imagination, moving millions every year to risk their lives? The author of this engaging book seeks to answer these questions.

Guardian First Book Award

9781783784509 (pbk)

796.5'22'019
796.522019

English

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