Points of Contact: On the Practice, Philosophy, and Pleasures of Fell Walking (ePub)
Knitting geology, history,...
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Are you passionate about walking and climbing, perhaps in areas such as Scotland and the English Lake District? Or do you simply have a curiosity about those activities and those places? Points of Contact is the book for you.
Knitting geology, history, and meteorology into an illuminating exploration of the world of fell and hill walking, it is by turns descriptive, humorous, and poetic.
Points of Contact reveals that you may have stayed at the Sybarites' Base without realizing it or suffered under the Spartan Assumption but not known it by that name. Small hills might not interest you, yet you should read about the Bonsai Peaks to know what you are missing. What has Scotland's An Teallach got that Everest hasn't? How is Franz Kafka relevant to mountaineering and what is a 'Bad K-Sequence'? Would you like to discover the hidden and inner significance of walking kit and equipment?
In considering these and other questions, Points of Contact draws on Mick Harney's years of mountain exploration to create a seamless and entertaining whole exploring the multi-faceted world of fell and hill walking. This book provides vivid insights into the hill and mountain experience, articulating fresh and thought-provoking perspectives upon its deeper meanings.
His books on fell and hill walking spring from over 35 years exploring the fells of the English Lake District and the mountains of Scotland. He previously completed two full rounds of the 214 hills in Cumbria famously catalogued by Alfred Wainwright. He has summited over 100 of the Scottish mountains above 3000 feet known as Munros.
Mick's passion for the wilder places, and fascination about our interactions with them, has also led him to investigate, and exclusively reveal, the true story of that most profound of human explorations, the quest for the South Pole.
His poetry has been published in the magazines Dragon, Knee-Deep, and TaC, and won awards in the Lancaster Lit Fest and Vers Poets competitions. He was short-listed for the 2010 Bridport prize. His selected poems are published as Stitches in Time.
- Autor: Mick Harney
- 2011, Englisch
- Verlag: Mick Harney
- ISBN-10: 1465748113
- ISBN-13: 9781465748119
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.07.2011
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- Größe: 0.40 MB
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