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The Man Who Married a Mountain

Paperback • 2005 • English

The Man Who Married a Mountain

By Rosemary Bailey

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About the book

Henry Russell, 19th-century mountaineer and explorer, combined a thirst for travel with a typically French attachment to his own region. He climbed every mountain in the Pyrenees and reveled in nature’s extremes. In The Man Who Married a Mountain, Rosemary Bailey finds not only Russell but a whole cast of 19th-century visitors, striding up the glaciers in tweed jackets and hobnailed boots. English, Americans, Russians, and many others, from Tennyson to Flaubert, colonized the Pyrenees in search ...Show more

Travel writing
Classic travel writing
Expeditions: popular accounts

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ISBN

9780553815238

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

The Man Who Married a Mountain

Format

Paperback

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