On mountains & mountaineers / by Mikel Vause.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vause, Mikel, 1952-

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mountaineers--Biography.

Mountaineers.

Mountaineering--Psychological aspects.

Mountaineering.

CHR1993.

Local Subjects:

CHR1993.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

128 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Other Title:

On mountains and mountaineers

Place of Publication:

La Crescenta, CA : Mountain N'Air Books, 1993.

Contents:

Sir Leslie Stephen: The intrinsic reward

Giusto Gervasutti: Meant for the mountain

Geoffrey Winthrop Young: Escape from convention

Sir John Hunt: The quest metaphor

Maurice Herzog: The ultimate bond

Woodrow Wilson Sayres: The paraodx of aloneness

Doug Scott: To adapt and to survive

Arlene Blum: Reaffirmation of life

David Roberts: The irony of existence

Albert Fredrick Mummery: Climbing as education.

Notes:

"This is a Mountain N'Air book."

"First Edition 1993."

"Mikel Vause analyzes the writings of several famous and accomplished mountaineers ... He explains and provides an insight for their reasoning and their passion for the mountains."--Cover.

"Notes": [8] blank pages.

Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-119).

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy includes list of climbing titles addressed to Dr. Potok laid in.

Other Format:

Online version: Vause, Mikel, 1952- On mountains & mountaineers.

ISBN:

1879415062

9781879415065

OCLC:

28374771