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Die Eisebirge des Schweizerlandes

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1760

Author: Gruner, Gottlieb Sigmund

Publisher: Bern : Ben Ubraham Wagner, Cohn

Call Number: DQ22 G7

Author: Gruner, Gottlieb Sigmund

Publisher: Bern : Ben Ubraham Wagner, Cohn

Published Date: 1760

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alps

Call Number: DQ22 G7

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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The early mountaineers

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1899

Author: Gribble, Francis Henry

Publisher: London : Unwin

Call Number: G510 G75

Author: Gribble, Francis Henry

Publisher: London : Unwin

Published Date: 1899

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alps

Notes: Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library

Call Number: G510 G75

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Escape to Switzerland

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1945

Author: De Beer, Gavin Rylands

Publisher: Harmondsworth (England): Penguin Books

Call Number: DQ24 D4 Pam

Author: De Beer, Gavin Rylands

Publisher: Harmondsworth (England): Penguin Books

Published Date: 1945

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alps

Call Number: DQ24 D4 Pam

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Etudes sur les glaciers

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1840

Author: Agassiz, Louis

Publisher: Neuchatel : Nicolet

Call Number: QE576 A3

Author: Agassiz, Louis

Publisher: Neuchatel : Nicolet

Published Date: 1840

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alps

Call Number: QE576 A3

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Facsimile of Christian Almer's Fuhrerbuch, 1856-1897

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1896

Author: Cunningham, Carus Dunlop. (ed.)

Publisher: London : Low, Marston

Call Number: DQ824 C8

Author: Cunningham, Carus Dunlop. (ed.)

Publisher: London : Low, Marston

Published Date: 1896

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Allmer, Christen; Alps; Mountaineers, Swiss

Notes: Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library

Call Number: DQ824 C8

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Features of alpine scenery due to glacial protection

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Author: Garwood, E.J

Call Number: QE501 G37 Pam

Author: Garwood, E.J

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alps; Geography

Notes: From Geographical Journal, September, 1910

Call Number: QE501 G37 Pam

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Feeling for daylight : the photographs of Jack Adamson

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2010

Author: Gallagher, Rhian

Publisher: Timaru, New Zealand : South Canterbury Museum

Call Number: 06.4 G13f

Author: Gallagher, Rhian

Responsibility: Rhian Gallagher

Publisher: Timaru, New Zealand : South Canterbury Museum

Published Date: 2010

Physical Description: 180 pages : photographs ; 27 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alps; Cook Mount; Photographers; Photography

Notes: Includes bibliographical references

ISBN: 9780473168780

Accession Number: 2015-8396

Call Number: 06.4 G13f

Collection: Archives Library

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Flammes de Pierre : short stories about mountains and mountaineers

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1991

Author: Sauvy, Anne

Publisher: London : Diadem Books

Call Number: PN3435 S38 F5; PN3435 S38 F5 copy 2 - Duplicate ACC box 6

Author: Sauvy, Anne

Publisher: London : Diadem Books

Published Date: 1991

Physical Description: 176p

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alps; Fiction; Mont Blanc

Notes: First published in France in 1982 by Editions Montalba, Paris

ISBN: 0906371880

Accession Number: AC596; 2nd copy donated by author in 1995

Call Number: PN3435 S38 F5; PN3435 S38 F5 copy 2 - Duplicate ACC box 6

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Gervasutti's climbs

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1957

Author: Gervasutti, Giusto

Publisher: London : Hart-Davis

Call Number: G512 G4 A3

Author: Gervasutti, Giusto

Publisher: London : Hart-Davis

Published Date: 1957

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alps; Mountaineers, Italian

Call Number: G512 G4 A3

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Gervasutti's climbs

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1979

Author: Gervasutti, Giusto

Publisher: Seattle : Mountaineers

Call Number: G512 G4 A3 1979

Author: Gervasutti, Giusto

Publisher: Seattle : Mountaineers

Published Date: 1979

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alps; Mountaineers, Italian

Call Number: G512 G4 A3 1979

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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The glaciers of the Alps

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1860

Author: Tyndall, John

Publisher: London : John Murray

Call Number: 03.4 T98g

Author: Tyndall, John

Publisher: London : John Murray

Published Date: 1860

Physical Description: 444 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Switzerland; Europe; Alps; Mountaineering; Glaciers; glaciology; Science; Nature

Abstract: A narrative of excusions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers, and an expostition of the physical principles to which they are related. -- From interior title page

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 03.4 T98g

Collection: Archives Library

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The Grands Mulets in alpine illustration

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1926

Author: Thorington, J. Monroe

Call Number: 01.2 T39 Pam

Author: Thorington, J. Monroe

Published Date: 1926

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alps

Notes: From the Alpine Journal, November 1926

Call Number: 01.2 T39 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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The great game

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 192?

Author: Furse, Dame Katherine

Publisher: England : Dexter Weatherproofs

Call Number: GV854 F8

Author: Furse, Dame Katherine

Publisher: England : Dexter Weatherproofs

Published Date: 192?

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alps

Call Number: GV854 F8

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Guide du Musee Alpin de Zermatt

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Author: Centre Alpin Zermatt

Call Number: 01.2 C33 Pam

Author: Centre Alpin Zermatt

Physical Description: 27p. : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alps; Switzerland

Notes: Texts in German, French and English

Accession Number: 2726

Call Number: 01.2 C33 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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The high Alps : a natural history of ice and snow

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1931

Author: Tutton, A. E. H.

Publisher: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.

Edition: 2nd edition

Call Number: 03 T89t

Author: Tutton, A. E. H.

Edition: 2nd edition

Publisher: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.

Published Date: 1931

Physical Description: 317 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Water; Ice; Snow; Science; Expeditions; Alps

Contents: PART I -- I. Introduction -- II. The evolution of our knowledge of water and ice -- III. The physical relationships of water and ice -- IV. The crystal structure of ice and snow -- V. Optical, thermal, and electrical properties of ice -- VI. Plasticity, viscosity, and elasticity of ice -- VII. Artificial ice production, river and ground ice, arctic and antarctic ice -- PART II -- VIII. The Alps, the ice and snow mountains of central Europe and their call -- IX. Nature and geological character of the Alps -- X. Situations of the ranges, peaks, and glaciers of the Alps -- XI. Snow-caps and glaciers and their movements -- XII. Crevasses, bergschrunds, and seracs ; dirt-bands and veins ; moraines and glacier lakes -- XIII. How the great summits have been conquered -- PART III -- XIV. Expeditions in the Bernese Oberland -- XV. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps, Monte Rosa -- Matterhorn section -- XVI. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps. Zinai, ferpecle and arolla section -- XVII. Expeditions in the chain of Mont Blanc -- XVIII. The ascent of Mont Blanc. Scientific work on the mountain -- XIX. Expeditions in the Graian and Dauphine Alps -- XX. Expeditions in the Bernina Alps and ortler group.