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Ring, Jim

 
9780719556890: How the English Made the Alps
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ISBN 10 : 0719556899 ISBN 13 : 9780719556890
Editeur : John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

As the British Empire spread accross the globe during the 19th century, another quieter conquest was going on much nearer to home: grdually the English were taking over the Alps. This text explores the story of the English love affair with the Alps, from its beginnings in the early Romantic movement, through the days of the 1850s and 1860s and the formation of the Alpine Club, to the inter-war years when the English assured the future prosperity of the alpine resorts by virtually inventing and then popularizing downhill-skiing.;Part history and part biography, the volume examines the artists, scientists, gentlemen-adventurers, invalids, and the aristocrats and eccentrics who all flocked to the Alps.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

As the British Empire spread accross the globe during the 19th century, another quieter conquest was going on much nearer to home: grdually the English were taking over the Alps. This text explores the story of the English love affair with the Alps, from its beginnings in the early Romantic movement, through the days of the 1850s and 1860s and the formation of the Alpine Club, to the inter-war years when the English assured the future prosperity of the alpine resorts by virtually inventing and then popularizing downhill-skiing.;Part history and part biography, the volume examines the artists, scientists, gentlemen-adventurers, invalids, and the aristocrats and eccentrics who all flocked to the Alps.

Biographie de l'auteur

Jim Ring was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was a scholar. His biography of Erskine Childers, author of The Riddle of the Sands, won the Marsh Prize for biography in 1997. It was followed by How the English Made the Alps. A study of Britain's Cold War submariners, We Come Unseen, appeared in 2001. This won the Mountbatten prize.

He is married with one daughter and one son, and lives on the North Norfolk coast.

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Éditeur
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0719556899
ISBN 13 
9780719556890
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
298
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Personne responsable
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