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.

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 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 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 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 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.