The Dolomite Mountains Excursions Through Tyrol Carinthia Carniola & Friuli In 1861 1862 & 1863. With A Geological Chapter And Pictorial Illustrations From Original Drawings On The Spot.

ABOUT THE BOOK:- It is a travel guide. Both the authors were members of the Geological Society of London and so the book contains not only the travel description in the form of letters to friends at home but also about the geology. Excursion through Tyrol Carinthia Carniola and Friuli in 1861 1862 and 1863 with a Geological chapter. Among the dolomite castles this must stand preeminent for size situation and history. It rivals in romantic position the castle in Calabria or the monastery of Meleora in Greece. It was one of the most beautiful drives I have seen. The plain between the two chains of mountains is elevated on the side where it meets the Carinthian mountains above the valley of the Save and is rich in pasture with clums or hedgerows of trees walnuts ash elms chestnuts limes and beeches. Despite their uncharted and isolated topography the Dolomites emerged progressively as a cultural landscape intimately connected to the cosmopolitan aura of Venice. Configuring the real dolomite landscape as if Titian had painted it faithfully. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- Josiah Gilbert (1814-1892) born in Rotherham Yorkshire London. He was an English painter draftsman research traveller and art critic. He was baptized on a February 1815 at the Nether Chapel Norfolk Street. Gilbert attended the Royal Academy of Arts in London where he first worked as a portrait painter but moved to Margar Ash at Ogar in 1843 where he had been busy with literary and artistic work. He travelled with G.C. Churchill to the Dolomites and from 1861 to 1863 wrote this travel guide. Both were members of the geological society of London……G.C. Churchill (1822-1906) after legal studies he devoted himself to his passion as a naturalist and geologist also he became a member of Geological Society of England. The trips in this book made between 1861 and 1863 along with Josiah Gilbert the well known painter as well as draftsman. The first fundamental work in our mountains of which the