NORWAY AND ITS GLACIERS VISITED IN 1851: FOLLOWED BY JOURNALS OF EXCURSIONS IN THE HIGH ALPS OF DAUPHINE Forbes 1853 1st edition (Forbes, James D.)

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NORWAY AND ITS GLACIERS VISITED IN 1851: FOLLOWED BY JOURNALS OF EXCURSIONS IN THE HIGH ALPS OF DAUPHINE Forbes 1853 1st edition
By Forbes, James D.
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Edinburgh, 1853, 1st edition. 349 pp, 10 color lithographs, 4 woodcuts, 2 maps. Forbes visited Norway to study the Glaciers, and Slingsby regarded this book as the great classic of Norwegian mountains. Forbes' mapping and exploration provided the basis for all the mountain ascents that followed. Forbes's account of his pioneering expedition to Norway contains early lithographs of scenes among the glaciers and snow fields. It also contains very nearly the sum of what was then known, in geological terms, about the country.

The work is in two halves, dealing first with Norway and then by way of comparison with the Alps. The second half contains the first account of Forbes' ascent of the Jungfrau with Agassiz (the first British ascent). The chapters on the Alps later appeared in the same author's Travels through the Alps. Norway and its Glaciers was rightly regarded by Cecil Slingsby, the 'father' of Norwegian mountaineering, as a classic.

Original brown cloth with gold lettering is bright, Near Fine. This is the copy we sold in Catalog 22 in 1988, and just got in again; the finest copy we have had.

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