Mountains of the Mind: A History of Fascination electro-optics New York: Assouli

New York: Assouli

James Bolivar Manson

15 full-page illustrations and numerous vignettes and head and tailpiece

Vierge was born in Madrid

Mountains of the Mind: A History of Fascination electro-optics New York: AssouliLondon: Granta, 2003. Publisher's hardback with the slightly rubbed dust jacket. 306 pages. Illusts and diags in the text. A VG+ copy. Three centuries ago mountains were considered a repellent form in landscape to be avoided at all cost so why is it that millions are people are drawn to them every year, often risking their lives. How have mountains come to exert such a strange and sometimes fatal hold on the human psyche?