"Only three centuries ago, mountains were considered a repellent
form of landscape, to be avoided if at all possible. So why
is it that now millions of people are drawn to them every
year, often risking their own lives and the lives of others
in the prcoess? How have mountains -which are, after all,
nothing but lumps of rock and ice-come to exert such a strange
and sometimes fatal hold on the human imagination.
In Mountains of the Mind, Robert Macfarlane seeks to
answer these questions....The author grew up steeped in the
lore of mountains and mountaineering, and he interweaves the
history of our changing attitudes to mountains with accounts
of his own experiences in wild landscapes."
"Robert Macfarlane was born in 1976. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel
College, Cambridge, and contributes to the Observer,
the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review
of Books, among other publications. Mountains of the
Mind is his first book."
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