Mountains have occupied a central place in German, Swiss, and Austrian intellectual culture for centuries.
This volume offers the first scholarly English translations of thirteen key texts from the Germanophone tradition of engagement with mountains.
The selected texts span over 450 years, ranging from the early modern period to the postmodern era, and encompass several discursive modes of the mountain experience including geographical descriptions, philosophical meditations, aesthetic deliberat.
Camden House (ny) Mountains and the german mind: translations from gessner to messner, 1541-2009, hardcover/sean ireton
