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Time on rock : a climber's route into the mountains / Anna Fleming.
Van Pelt - New Book Display GV199.92.F58 A3 2022
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fleming, Anna, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fleming, Anna.
- Mountaineers--Scotland--Biography.
- Mountaineers.
- Rock climbing--Psychological aspects.
- Rock climbing.
- Scotland.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 260 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Canongate Books, 2022.
- Summary:
- "In Time on Rock Anna Fleming charts two parallel journeys: learning the craft of traditional rock climbing, and the new developing appreciation of the natural world it brings her. Through the story of her progress from terrified beginner to confident lead climber, she shows us how placing hand and foot on rock becomes a profound new way into the landscape. Anna takes us from the gritstone rocks of the Peak District and Yorkshire to the gabbro pinnacles of the Cuillin, the slate of North Wales and the high plateau of the Cairngorms. Each landscape, and each type of rock, brings its own challenges and unique pleasures. She also shows us how climbing invites us into the history of a place: geologically, of course, but also culturally. This book is Anna's journey of self-discovery, but it is also a guide to losing oneself in the greater majesty of the natural world. With great lyricism she explores how it feels to climb as a woman, the pleasures of the physical demands of climbing, fear and challenge, but more than anything, it is about a joyful connection to the mountains."--Amazon.ca.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. Peak District
- Gritstone
- II. Yorkshire
- III. Kalymnos
- Limestone
- IV. Cuillin I
- Gabbro And Basalt
- V. Lake District
- Rhyolite
- VI. Cuillin II
- VII. Dinorwig
- Slate/Llechi
- VIII. Moray
- Sandstone
- IX. Cairngorms
- Granite.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-260)
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1838851763
- 9781838851767
- OCLC:
- 1260241321
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