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To Which Are Added The Original Memoir, And Supplementary Articles
By Peter Guthrie Tait Amd John Ruskin.
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Title: "The Eagle's Nest" in the Valley of Sixt: a summer home
among the Alps, together with some excursions among the Great
Glaciers.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF EUROPE
collection includes books from the British Library digitised by
Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the
development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights
include the development of language, political and educational
systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents
periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion
into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of
new nations, and European expansion into the New World. ++++The
below data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Wills, Alfred Right; 1860. 8 . 10196.c.12.
Title: "The Eagle's Nest" in the Valley of Sixt: a summer home
among the Alps, together with some excursions among the Great
Glaciers.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL
collection includes books from the British Library digitised by
Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel
guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and
female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal
narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe,
Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Wills, Alfred;
1860. 8 . 10195.cc.27.
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date:
1858 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original.
It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.
When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free
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than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. A NIGHT ON THE
MER DE GLACE, AND A LADY'S VISIT TO THE JARDIN. I lay on that rock
where the storms have their dwelling, The birth-place of phantoms,
the home of the cloud; Around it for ever deep music is swelling,
The voice of the mountain wind, solemn and loud. Mrs. Hemans.
Noctes coenaeque Deum Hon. Giving the " Chef-Guide " the Slip --
How to carry Cream in the Mountains -- Dangers of the Glaciers --
Arrival at the Tacul -- An Airy Lodging -- " Difficulties" of the
Col du Geant revisited -- Supper on the Moraine -- Night among the
Glaciers -- A Cold Bath -- Useful Coffee-pot -- Sunrise on the Mer
de Glace -- Les Egralets -- The Jardin -- Return to the Montanvert
-- Descent to Chamouni in the Dark -- Remarks -- Desirable
Arrangement. I Was at Chamouni in the autumn of 1854, accompanied
by my wife and brother-in-law; and after the usual round of
excursions, after visiting the Flegere, and the Montanvert,
essaying the passage of the " Ponts," ascending the Breven, and
watching from that glorious point of view a very successful ascent
of Mont Blanc, I experienced a growing desire to introduce my wife
to some of the wilder and grander features of glacier scenery, and
to give her a little insight into what exploring the recesses of
the High Alps really involves, I was satisfied 34 WHERE TO SLEEP.
that the great fatigue of reaching and returning from the Jardin in
the same day, even if we slept two nights at the Montanvert, would
destroy all the pleasure she would otherwise derive from the
expedition, even if it did not prove altogether beyond her
strength; besides which...
To Which Are Added The Original Memoir, And Supplementary Articles
By P. G. Tait, And John Ruskin. Text Is In English And French.
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date:
1858 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original.
It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.
When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free
trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more
than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. A NIGHT ON THE
MER DE GLACE, AND A LADY'S VISIT TO THE JARDIN. I lay on that rock
where the storms have their dwelling, The birth-place of phantoms,
the home of the cloud; Around it for ever deep music is swelling,
The voice of the mountain wind, solemn and loud. Mrs. Hemans.
Noctes coenaeque Deum Hon. Giving the " Chef-Guide " the Slip --
How to carry Cream in the Mountains -- Dangers of the Glaciers --
Arrival at the Tacul -- An Airy Lodging -- " Difficulties" of the
Col du Geant revisited -- Supper on the Moraine -- Night among the
Glaciers -- A Cold Bath -- Useful Coffee-pot -- Sunrise on the Mer
de Glace -- Les Egralets -- The Jardin -- Return to the Montanvert
-- Descent to Chamouni in the Dark -- Remarks -- Desirable
Arrangement. I Was at Chamouni in the autumn of 1854, accompanied
by my wife and brother-in-law; and after the usual round of
excursions, after visiting the Flegere, and the Montanvert,
essaying the passage of the " Ponts," ascending the Breven, and
watching from that glorious point of view a very successful ascent
of Mont Blanc, I experienced a growing desire to introduce my wife
to some of the wilder and grander features of glacier scenery, and
to give her a little insight into what exploring the recesses of
the High Alps really involves, I was satisfied 34 WHERE TO SLEEP.
that the great fatigue of reaching and returning from the Jardin in
the same day, even if we slept two nights at the Montanvert, would
destroy all the pleasure she would otherwise derive from the
expedition, even if it did not prove altogether beyond her
strength; besides which...
To Which Are Added The Original Memoir, And Supplementary Articles
By P. G. Tait, And John Ruskin. Text Is In English And French.
To Which Are Added The Original Memoir, And Supplementary Articles
By Peter Guthrie Tait Amd John Ruskin.
To Which Are Added The Original Memoir, And Supplementary Articles
By P. G. Tait, And John Ruskin. Text Is In English And French.
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