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قراءة كتاب The Alps
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THE ALPS DESCRIBED BY W. MARTIN CONWAY PAINTED BY A. D. McCORMICK
LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1904
HAYMAKERS IN THE VAL MAGGIA
The loads carried by the women are enormous in size, what they are in weight I don't know; but many of them are larger than those shown in the picture. One load I measured was twice the height of the woman.
CONTENTS
THE TREASURES OF THE SNOW 1
HOW TO SEE MOUNTAINS 22
HOW MOUNTAINS ARE MADE 46
ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF ALPS 72
THE MOODS OF THE MOUNTAINS 101
MOUNTAINS ALL THEYEAR ROUND 128
TYPES OF ALPINE PEAKS 151
PASSES 177
GLACIERS 202
ALPINE PASTURES 226
THE HUMAN INTEREST 251
VOLCANOES 274
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FACING PAGE
1. Haymakers in the Val Maggia Frontispiece
2. Bern from the Schänzli 2
3. View of the Bernese Alps from the Gurten, near Bern 4
4. The Pier at Scherzligen, Lake of Thun—Evening 6
5. Melchior Anderegg 8
6. Storm coming up over Lake of Lucerne 10
7. Looking up Valley towards Zermatt from near Randa 14
8. Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau from Scherzligen, near Thun 16
9. Lucerne and Lake from the Drei Linden 20
10. The Jungfrau from Interlaken 24
11. Fiescherhorn and Lower Grindelwald Glacier 30
12. The Castle of Chillon 34
13. The Corpus Christi Procession to the Hofkirche of St. Leodegar 38
14. Cloud-burst over Lucerne 44
15. At Meiringen 48
16. Storm Clouds over the Lake of Thun public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@39542@[email protected]#Page_52" class="pginternal"