Adam Watson: Essays on lone trips, mountain-craft and other hill topics
Essays on lone trips, mountain-craft and other hill topics
Buch
- Paragon Publishing, 05/2016
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781782224600
- Bestellnummer: 6092782
- Umfang: 62 Seiten
- Gewicht: 219 g
- Maße: 280 x 216 mm
- Stärke: 4 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 4.5.2016
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
This book begins with a thought-provoking article now reprinted, criticising the increasing influence of politically-correct organisations and politicians who desire to control freewill and mountaineering. Then comes a chapter with a critique of several writers on the Cairngorms in comparison with the original Seton Gordon.After the author published a review in 1977 on 'The wildlife potential of the Cairngorms region', he came under unwarranted attack by two influential private landowners who misrepresented what he wrote and even included a threat. A wider public should be aware of this.
There follows an essay on biologist Professor Vero C. Wynne-Edwards, and another on the history of the research station near Banchory, established for studying at first red grouse and then ecological problems of mountain, moorland, woodland and fresh-water.
The last chapter - the most important one and occupying a third of the book - gives the author's lifetime view of the value of lone trips in climbing, ski-mountaineering and mountain-craft.