Aubrey L Haines

Mountain Fever

Historic Conquests of Rainier

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Features an account of the 19th century conquests of the highest and most imposing of Pacific Northwest mountains, Mt. Rainier. This is the history of organized mountaineering in the Northwest as well as of Mt. Rainier and those who accepted its challenge. It carries those stories when Mt. Rainier achieved the status of a national park.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780295978475
• ISBN-10: 0295978473
• Artikelnr.: 22196060

Autorenporträt

Aubrey L. Haines. Foreword by Ruth Kirk

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Ruth Kirk
Preface to the Original Edition
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Wanderers in the Wilderness, 1833-57
Conquest of the Heights, 1858-70
Solitudes Forever Broken, 1871-84
Lower Gardens of Eden, 1885-88
Widening the Ripple, 1889-90
Pearl of Great Price, 1891-92
Men of the Mountain, 1893-94
A National Park Forever
Epilogue
Appendix: A Summary of Ascents and Near Ascents, 1852-94
Notes
Bibliography
Index