Literatura
Literatura > Shoumatoff (2001)
| autor (rok) | Shoumatoff, Nikolas & Shoumatoff, Nina (2001) |
| název | The Alps : Europe's Mountain Heart |
| vydavatel | University of Michigan Press |
| rozsah | 265 stran |
| ISBN | 0-472-11111-6 |
| jazyk | anglicky |
| dostupnost | knihovna katedry geografie PřF UP |
Kniha podává syntetický pohled na alpský region – věnuje se jeho geografii, geologii, podnebí, fauně a flóře, etnikům, dialektům, pastevectví, lidovému umění a pověstem, neopomíjí ani odraz alpské inspirace v umělecké tvorbě, význam Alp jako kolébky horolezectví a regionu zimních sportů.
Obsah
| 1. | The Alpine World | Entering the Alps One Day in the Alps Interactions Past and Present A Wedding of Nature and Culture |
| 2. | Where Peaks and People Are | Mapping the Alps Alpine Gaul Swiss Alps and Adjacent Italy Austrian and Southeast Alps |
| 3. | How Peaks Got There | Mountain Formation, Part 1 Mountain Formation, Part 2 Mountain Formation, Part 3 Practical Geology |
| 4. | Alpine Climate, Snow, and Glaciers | Climate Snow Glaciers |
| 5. | Vegetable Kingdom | Ecology Flora |
| 6. | Animal Kingdom | Invertebrates Nonmammal Vertebrates Mammals |
| 7. | People Talking | Origins Folk Talk |
| 8. | Mountain People's Lives | Pastoral Life Home Life |
| 9. | Literature | Legends Fiction |
| 10. | Art and Music | Visual Arts Music and Dance |
| 11. | Warfare | Early Campaigns Feudal Fief Fights Arrival of Modern War |
| 12. | To the Summits | Climbs before 1800 Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn Twentieth-Century Mountaineers |
| 13. | Around the Alps | Travels before 1800 Nineteenth-Century Travels Twentieth-Century Travels |
| 14. | Alpine Attractions | Psychological Interactions Emotions Not Merely Human Attractions for Visitors Fatal Attractions Two Magic Mountains Mona Lisa and the Alps Three Who Loved the Alps Floral Inspiration Alpine Enchantment |
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