Mountains of the Mind
Adventures in Reaching the Summit
by Robert MacFarlane
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appears in Hiking Camping, Travel, and History.
Robert Macfarlane's Mountains of the Mind is the most interesting of the crop of books published to mark the 50th anniversary of the first successful ascent of Everest. Macfarlane is both a mountaineer and a scholar. Consequently we get more than just a chronicle of climbs. He interweaves accounts of his own adventurous ascents with those of pionee...
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appears in Hiking Camping, Travel, and History.
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