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The first scholarly English translations of thirteen vital texts that elucidate the central role mountains have played across nearly five centuries of Germanoph
Heights of Reflection
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Pages: 408
Authors: Sean Moore Ireton
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Camden House

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Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Mountains have alway
Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Dawn Hollis
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-06 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Throughout the longue dureé of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real experience? In wha
Language: en
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Authors: Harald Höbusch
Categories: History
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A study of how Nanga Parbat, the ninth-highest peak on earth, became the German mountain of the mind.
Shadow on the Mountain
Language: en
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Authors: Margi Preus
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
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“Newbery Honor winner Preus . . . delivers a riveting story about teenage freedom fighters in WWII Norway” (Publishers Weekly). After Nazi Germany invades a