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Proud heritage : people and progress in early Canadian geoscience

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2004
Publisher
St. John's, Newfoundland : Geological Association of Canada
Call Number
03.1 M26p
Responsibility
Edited by R. W. Macqueen
Publisher
St. John's, Newfoundland : Geological Association of Canada
Published Date
2004
Physical Description
217 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Geology
Geoscience
Science
Abstract
Proud Heritage: People and Progress in Early Canadian Geoscience is a collection of articles from Geoscience Canada and its predecessor, highlighting the people and events which helped shape our geoscience history. -- From back cover
Contents
Partial content topics: Early geological contributors -- Geological pioneers, 19th century -- Geological leaders, 19th and 20th centuries -- Geological leaders, 20th century -- Early geological studies -- Short biographies
ISBN
919216943
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
03.1 M26p
Collection
Archives Library
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Upon the origin of alpine and Italian lakes ; and upon glacial erosion

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1889
Publisher
New York : The Humboldt Publishing Co.
Call Number
03.4 R14u
Responsibility
A. C. Ramsay, John Ball, Roderick I. Murchinson, B. Studer, A. Favre, Edward Whymper, and J. W. Spencer.
Publisher
New York : The Humboldt Publishing Co.
Published Date
1889
Physical Description
148 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Switzerland
Italy
Europe
Alps
glaciology
Glaciers
Geology
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
03.4 R14u
Collection
Archives Library
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Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1897
Publisher
London : Charles Scribner's Sons
Call Number
01 W69m
Responsibility
Edward L. Wilson, Edwin Lord Weeks, A. F. Jaccaci, W. Martin-Conway, Mark Brickell Kerr, William Williams, and H. F. B. Lynch
Publisher
London : Charles Scribner's Sons
Published Date
1897
Physical Description
358 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
St. Elias
Alps
Climbing
Glaciers
Contents
I. Mount Washington in winter / Edward L. Wilson -- II. Some episodes of mountaineering by a cause amateur / Edwin Lord Weeks -- III. Ascent of Mount Aetna / A. F. Jaccaci -- IV. Ascent of Mount Ararat / H. F. B. Lynch -- V. Climbing Mount St. Elias / William Williams -- VI. Mount St. Elias and its glaciers / Mark Brickell Kerr -- VII. One thousand miles through the Alps / Sir. W. Martin Conway
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
01 W69m
Collection
Archives Library
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Life and limb : a true story of tragedy and survival against the odds

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2004
Author
Andrew, Jamie
Publisher
London : Portrait, an imprint of Judy Piatkus Limited
Call Number
01.2 An2l
Author
Andrew, Jamie
Publisher
London : Portrait, an imprint of Judy Piatkus Limited
Published Date
2004
Physical Description
306 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Mountaineers
Accidents
Survival
Abstract
The weather looked perfect when Jamie Andrew and his closest friend, Jamie Fisher set off to climb the formidable North Face of Les Droites in the French Alps in 1999. But a sudden and ferocious storm hit them 10,000 feet up the mountain. They were trapped on a narrow ridge in temperatures of -30C, battered by winds so strong the rescue helicopters could not reach them. After five nightmarish nights doggedly clinging to life, Jamie Andrew was finally rescued; but his friend Jamie Fisher had died beside him on the last night. -- From inside cover
ISBN
0749950072
Accession Number
P2023.19
Call Number
01.2 An2l
Collection
Archives Library
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Origin of sedimentary rocks

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1980
Author
Blatt, Harvey, Middleton, Gerard, and Murray, Raymond
Publisher
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall Inc.
Call Number
03 B59o
Author
Blatt, Harvey, Middleton, Gerard, and Murray, Raymond
Publisher
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall Inc.
Published Date
1980
Physical Description
782 pages
Scale
0136427103
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Geology
Science
Abstract
An advanced textbook on sendimentary rock origins.
Contents
Selection of topic examples: Aims and methods in the study of sedimentary rocks -- physics of sedimentary processes; terrigenous clastic sediments -- carbonate rocks and evaporites -- other sedimentary rocks -- environments and facies
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
03 B59o
Collection
Archives Library
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The alpine regions of Switzerland and the neighbouring countries : a pedestrian's noteson their physical features, scenery, and natural history

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1896
Author
Bonney, T. G.
Publisher
Cambridge : Deighton, Bell, and Co.
Edition
1st edition
Call Number
02.2 B64a
Author
Bonney, T. G.
Responsibility
Illustrations by E. Whymper
Edition
1st edition
Publisher
Cambridge : Deighton, Bell, and Co.
Published Date
1896
Physical Description
351 pages ; 15 ill. ; 5 plates
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Switzerland
Geology
Italy
Glaciers
Animals
Avalanches
Botany
Folklore
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
02.2 B64a
Collection
Archives Library
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Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Buisse, Alex
Publisher
London : Vertebrate Publishing
Edition
First English Edition
Call Number
01.2 B87m o.s.
Author
Buisse, Alex
Responsibility
Translated by Natalie Berry
Edition
First English Edition
Publisher
London : Vertebrate Publishing
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
176 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 32 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mont Blanc
Switzerland
France
Italy
Alps
Eiger
Mountaineering
Guidebook
Photography
Photography, Aerial
Abstract
In Mont Blanc Lines, photographer and alpinist Alex Buisse has travelled the Mont Blanc massif to capture images of all the major mountain faces and to trace the classic climbing and skiing lines. As well as Mont Blanc itself, also featured are other Alpine icons, including the north faces of the Grandes Jorasses and the Froites, Aiguille du Midi, and the Grand Capucin. Whether on the ground in crampons or on skis, or in the air by ultralight or paraglider, he has captured the majesty of the range so that he can tell the story of the classic lines and present them to us in the most stunning way possible. Mont Blanc Lines features images taken during over a decade of mountaineering while Alex worked as a professional photographer based in Chamonix. Alex Buisse's story of these iconic mountain faces is mixed with the stories of climbers who have experienced great moments there. As a bonus feature, also included are the legendary faces of the Matterhorn and the Eiger North Face in Switzerland. -- From back cover.
ISBN
9781839811678
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
01.2 B87m o.s.
Location
ARC O.S.
Collection
Archives Library
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Above the snow line : mountaineering sketches between 1870 and 1880

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1885
Author
Dent, Clinton
Publisher
London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Call Number
01.2 D43a
Author
Dent, Clinton
Publisher
London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Published Date
1885
Physical Description
327 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Exploration
Mountaineering
Alpine Club (Great Britain)
Expeditions
Switzerland
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
01.2 D43a
Collection
Archives Library
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Principles of stratigraphy

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1966
Author
Dunbar, Carl O. and Rodgers, John
Publisher
New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Call Number
03 D91p
Author
Dunbar, Carl O. and Rodgers, John
Publisher
New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published Date
1966
Physical Description
356 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
stratigraphy
Geology
Abstract
Carl O. Dunbar and John Rodgers authored this textbook in response to the growing interest in the study of stratigraphy in academia.
Contents
Part I : Environments of deposition -- Part 2 : Basic stratigraphic relations -- Part 3 : Interpretation of specific lithotopes -- Part 4 : Synthesis
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
03 D91p
Collection
Archives Library
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Glacial and periglacial geomorphology

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1970
Author
Embleton, Clifford and Cuchlaine, A. M. King
Publisher
Toronto : Macmillan
Call Number
03.4 E1g
Author
Embleton, Clifford and Cuchlaine, A. M. King
Publisher
Toronto : Macmillan
Published Date
1970
Physical Description
608 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
glaciology
Geology
Contents
Part I : Basic concepts of glaciation and glacier behaviour -- Part 2 : Glacial and fluvioglacial erosion -- Part 3 : Glacial and fluvioglacial deposition -- Part 4 : Periglacial geomorphology
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
03.4 E1g
Collection
Archives Library
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Rocky voices : the memories of minerals that form the Rocky Mountains

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Author
Enkelmann, Eva
Publisher
Altona, MB : FriesenPress
Call Number
03.2 En5r
03.2 En5r reference copy
Author
Enkelmann, Eva
Publisher
Altona, MB : FriesenPress
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
113 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Geology
Geology - Rocky Mountains, Canada
Non-fiction
Young Adult
Science
Abstract
A collection of stories from the perspectives of personified minerals found in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
Contents
Introduction -- Lucy Calcite -- Sir Charles Zircon -- Jenny Apatite -- Joel Illite -- Captain Susi Sanidine -- Sam Coal -- Emma Amphipora -- David Rock Flour -- Karen Waterdrop -- Peter Pebble -- Bridget Cement -- Ray Clay.
ISBN
9781039161542
Accession Number
P2023.17
P2023.25
Call Number
03.2 En5r
03.2 En5r reference copy
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Archives Library
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Canada rocks : the geologic journey

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2007
Author
Eyles, Nick and Miall, Andrew
Publisher
Markham, Ontario : Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited
Call Number
03.1 E5c
Author
Eyles, Nick and Miall, Andrew
Publisher
Markham, Ontario : Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited
Published Date
2007
Physical Description
450 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Geology
Geoscience
Abstract
A complete overview of the geological formation of Canada covering four billion years.
Contents
1. A hellish beginning -- 2. Moving earth : plate tectonics -- 3. The united plates of Canada : four billion years of tectonic activity 4. Canada's heartland : the shield -- 5. Giant seas cover the shield : the interior platform -- 6. Building Eastern Canada -- 7. Building Arctic Canada -- 8. Building Western Canada -- 9. Cool times : the ice sheets arrive -- 10. Rocky resouces : mining in Canada -- 11. Challenges for the future -- 12. Geology and the building of a Canadian identity
ISBN
9781550418606
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
03.1 E5c
Collection
Archives Library
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On thin ice : alpine climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2005
Author
Fowler, Mick
Publisher
London : Baton Works Publications
Call Number
01 F83o
Author
Fowler, Mick
Responsibility
Foreword by Chris Bonington
Publisher
London : Baton Works Publications
Published Date
2005
Physical Description
223 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Mountaineers
Climbing
Travel
Sports
Abstract
Mick Fowler's second set of climbing memoirs, follows Vertical Pleasure (Hodder, 1995). Here the celebrated mountaineer records his expeditions since 1990. Despite work and family commitments he has maintained a regular series of 'big trips' to challending objectives around the world with a sequence of major successes. -- From inside cover
ISBN
1898573581
Accession Number
P2023.19
Call Number
01 F83o
Collection
Archives Library
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Mountains and desire : climbing vs. the end of the world

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
Grebowicz, Margaret
Publisher
London, U.K. : Repeater Books
Call Number
02.8 G81m
Author
Grebowicz, Margaret
Publisher
London, U.K. : Repeater Books
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
113 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Climbing
Sport
Sport climbing
Mountaineering
Abstract
In 1923, a reporter asked George Mallory why he wanted to summit Mount Everest. "Because it's there." Today the question "why do this?" is included in nearly every mountaineering story of interview. Meanwhile, interest in climbing is steadily on the rise, from commerical mountaineering and climbing walls in university gyms to corporate workplaces to the flood of spectacular climbing imagery in advertising, cinema, and social media. [...] Taking the degradation of Everest and the success of Free Solo as its starting point, Mountains and Desire chases after what remains of this pursuit -- marred by its colonial history, coopted by national chauvinism, ableism, and the capitalist compulsion to unlimited growth -- for both climbers and their fans. -- From back cover
Contents
1. The ends of desire -- 2. Who will marry you now? -- 3. Just because someone has done it doesn't mean it's humanly possible -- 4. Everest traffic and the economy of walking -- 5. Climbing technotopia, or: Did free solo really happen? -- 6. Gestures of climbing -- 7. The last problem of the Himalaya.
ISBN
9781913462239
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
02.8 G81m
Collection
Archives Library
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Native air : a novel

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Howland, Jonathan
Publisher
Brattleboro, Vermont : Green Writers Press
Call Number
05.2 H84n
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Author
Howland, Jonathan
Publisher
Brattleboro, Vermont : Green Writers Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Fiction
Mountaineering
Abstract
In a debut novel from Green Writers Press by Jonathan Howland, the austere beauty and high exposure of mountain adventure provide the context and the measure for what it means to be alive for climbing partners Joe Holland and Pete Hunter--until one of them isn’t. When the book opens, it’s the mid-80s. Joe Holland, the novel’s narrator, is a climber and a seeker, but mostly he’s Pete Hunter’s shadow. The two meet in college and spend the next ten years living at the base of any rock that appears scalable, most of them near Yosemite and California’s High Sierra. The joys and strains of their friendship comprise the novel’s first half. In the second, the bare bones--obsession, grief, love, and repair--come into stark relief when Pete’s grown son Will calls Joe back into climbing, into the past, and into breathless vitality -- Front dust jacket flap
ISBN
9781950584901
Accession Number
P2022.14
Call Number
05.2 H84n
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Banff Mountain Book Competition Grand Prize Winner, 2022
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The romance of mountaineering

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1935
Author
Irving, R. L. G.
Publisher
London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
Edition
1st edition
Call Number
01 Ir8t
Author
Irving, R. L. G.
Edition
1st edition
Publisher
London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
Published Date
1935
Physical Description
320 pages ; 40 ill.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Mountaineers
Masculinity
Alpine Club (Great Britain)
Contents
PART ONE: BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS -- Introductory and personal -- Lux in tenebris -- The winning of Mont Blanc -- The growth of understanding -- The great peaks are won -- PART TWO: SIGNS OF MATURITY -- The extension of the playground -- The old leading-strings are dropped -- Mechanization and the cult of danger -- The highest mountains in the world -- Nationality in mountaineering -- PART THREE: PERPETUAL YOUTH -- Methods of approach -- Mountaineering out of season -- Solidary mountaineering -- Solvitur in excelsis.
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
01 Ir8t
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Adventures of an alpine guide

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1932
Author
Klucker, Christian
Publisher
London : John Murray
Edition
1st (English)
Call Number
01.2 K71a
Author
Klucker, Christian
Responsibility
Translation by Erwin and Pleasaunce Von Gaisberg. Edited with additional chapters by H. E. G. Tyndale
Edition
1st (English)
Publisher
London : John Murray
Published Date
1932
Physical Description
329 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Guide
Klucker, Christian
Alps
Whymper, Edward
Canadian Rockies
Mont Blanc
Mountaineering
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
01.2 K71a
Collection
Archives Library
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Hamish MacInnes : the fox of Glencoe

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
MacInnes, Hamish
Publisher
Scotland : Scottish Mountaineering Press
Call Number
01.2 M26h
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Author
MacInnes, Hamish
Responsibility
Edited by Deziree Wilson
Publisher
Scotland : Scottish Mountaineering Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
367 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Mountaineers
Scotland
Biographies
Abstract
From a youthful solo of the Matterhorn, through historic first ascents, hunting for treasure, inventing equipment and pioneering mountain rescue, Hamish MacInnes recalls a lifetime of epic adventures in this eclectic selection of tales. His restless curiosity and pragmatic approach to risk and loss are vivdly rendered with wry, elegant style, offering unique insight into the mind of one of the greatest mountaineers of our time. -- From back cover
ISBN
9781907233395
Accession Number
P2022.14
Call Number
01.2 M26h
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Mountain Literature (Non Fiction) The Jon Whyte Award 2022 Winner
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Alpine rising : Sherpas, Baltis, and the triumph of local climbers in the great ranges

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2024
Author
McDonald, Bernadette
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
Call Number
01.1 M14a
Author
McDonald, Bernadette
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
Published Date
2024
Physical Description
269 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Mountaineers
Mountains
Climbing
Himalaya Mountains
Sherpa
Sherpa-history
Nepal
Abstract
The story of the often unheralded and unrecognized stars of climbing in the Himalaya and the Karakoram: the local inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Pakistan, Tibet, India, and Nepal who have been support staff--porters, cooks, sirdars, and unacknowledged guides--for Western climbers for generations. ALPINE RISING focuses on the experiences and accomplishments of these Sherpas, Baltis, Ladakhis, Hunzas, Astoris, Magars, Bhotias, Rais, and Gurangs. Highlighted climbers range from Raghubir Thapa and Goman Singh who climbed with Albert Mummery in 1895, Ang Tharkay who climbed with Eric Shipton and Maurice Herzog, and Tenzing Norgay who, along with Edmund Hillary, was the first to summit Everest, to today's superstars, Ali Sadpara, Mingma G, Kama Rita, and others -- Provided by publisher.
ISBN
9781680515787
Accession Number
P2024.02
Call Number
01.1 M14a
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Archives Library
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Published Date
1886
Author
Michelet, Jules
Publisher
London : L. Nelson and Sons
Call Number
01.2 M58t
Author
Michelet, Jules
Publisher
London : L. Nelson and Sons
Published Date
1886
Physical Description
260 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Switzerland
Europe
Alps
Mountaineering
Glaciers
Nature
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
01.2 M58t
Collection
Archives Library
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