Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination

WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. In this ground-breaking classic work Robert Macfarlane takes us up into the mountains: to experience their shattering beauty the fear and risk of adventure and to explore the strange impulses that have for centuries lead us to the worlds highest places. About the Author Robert Macfarlane was born in Nottinghamshire in 1976. He is the author ofMountains of the Mind The Wild Places The Old Ways andLandmarks.Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.The Wild Places won the Boardman-Tasker Award and the Sundial Scottish Arts Council Non-fiction Award. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge and writes on environmentalism literature and travel for publications including theGuardian theSunday Times andThe New York Times.