Mountains and the German mind : translations from Gessner to Messner, 1541-2009 /

Table of Contents: “…Hegel, Travel Diary Through the Bernese Alps (1796) -- Sean Franzel; Alexander von Humboldt, Failed Ascents of Antisana and Chimborazo -- Two Excerpts from Travel Diaries (1802) -- Caroline Schaumann; Hermann von Barth, From the Northern Limestone Alps (1874) -- Excerpts -- Sean Ireton; Georg Simmel, "Alpine Journeys" (1895) and "On the Aesthetics of the Alps" (1911) -- Jens Klenner; Eduard Pichl, "Autobiographical Sketch" (1914) and "The Alpine Association and German Purity" (1923) -- Wilfried Wilms; Leni Riefenstahl, Struggle in Snow and Ice (1933) -- Excerpts -- Seth Peabody; Arnold Fanck, He Directed Glaciers, Storms and Avalanches: A Film Pioneer Recounts (1973) -- Excerpts -- Kamaal Haque; Hans Ertl, My Wild Thirties (1982), Chapter 7: "The Film Gets Colorized -- But the Himalaya Still Looks Bleak" -- Harald Höbusch; Max Peintner, "The Dam" (1981) -- Paul Buchholz; Reinhold Messner, Westwall: The Abyss Principle (2009) -- Excerpts -- Gundolf Graml; Works Cited; Index…”
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