The Glaciers of the Alps
Author: John Tyndall
Publisher:
Published: 1860
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13:
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Mountain Texture
Author: Garrett Fisher
Publisher:
Published: 2020-02-21
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9781675981535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author's 4th aerial texture book and 23rd book overall, 'Mountain Texture' is a comprehensive gallery of aerial images taken of glaciers found in Switzerland, France, and Italy. Utilizing a light antique airplane from the WWII era, images of these majestic glaciers show patterns, textures, and details of massive formations of ice, from the intimate perspective of an aircraft flying slowly above. While the glaciers themselves are in the process of recession and extinction, they remain literal rivers of ice that carve immense alpine topography. In their natural cycles of movement, they present themselves as unique and ever-changing works of art, difficult to appreciate through ordinary means on the ground or from satellites above. Containing 167 aerial images, 'Mountain Texture' presents virtually unrepeatable views of countless glaciers of the Alps, whether from the perspective closely above, annual flows in ice, or the effects of climate change.
Book of the Alps
Author: Spiegel Stefan
Publisher:
Published: 2021-08
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9783946719328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSatellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World: Asia (U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1386-F)
Author: U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher:
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781782662174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTravels Through the Alps of Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine Chain
Author: James David Forbes
Publisher:
Published: 1843
Total Pages: 480
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond
Author: Stephen O'Shea
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017-02-21
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0393634191
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“An entertaining, turbocharged race among the high mountain passes of six alpine countries.” —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review For centuries the Alps have been witness to the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers, and the dreams of engineers. In The Alps, Stephen O’Shea ("a graceful and passionate writer"—Washington Post) takes readers up and down these majestic mountains. Journeying through their 500-mile arc across France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, and Slovenia, he explores the reality behind historic events and reveals how the Alps have profoundly influenced culture and society.
The Alps
Author: Nicholas Shoumatoff
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780472111114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMan, nature, geography, climate--a fascinating picture of Europe's major mountain chain
Walking in the Alps
Author: Kev Reynolds
Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited
Published: 2011-07-21
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 1849654387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second edition of this classic guidebook by Kev Reynolds on walking and trekking in the Alps. This book is a definitive guide to the many thousands of possible routes, with a geographical span that ranges from the Maritime Alps of southern France to the Julians of Slovenia, from Italy's Gran Paradiso to the little-known Türnitzer Alps of eastern Austria, and from the ice-bound giants of the Bernese Oberland to the green rolling Kitzbüheler Alps and the bizarre towers of the Dolomites of South Tirol, showing the amazing diversity of this wonderful mountain chain. There are walks to suit every taste: gentle and undemanding, long and tough, and everything in between. Written by Britain's most respected authority on the Alps, this is a fully updated edition of this important book.
The North Cascades Highway
Author: Jack Watson McLeod
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780295993164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe North Cascades Highway, an illustrated natural history guide, helps travelers and readers to appreciate the deeper beauty behind the landscape. Organized as a series of stops at eye-catching sites along eighty miles of the highway, The North Cascades Highway reveals the geological story of each location.
Recent Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Glaciers
Author: Mauri Pelto
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2017-01-17
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1119068118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlaciers are considered a key and an iconic indicator of climate change. The World Glacier Monitoring Service has noted that global alpine balance has been negative for 35 consecutive years. This highlights the dire future that alpine glaciers face. The goal of this volume is to tell the story, glacier by glacier, of response to climate change from 1984-2015. Of the 165 glaciers examined in 10 different alpine regions, 162 have retreated significantly. It is evident that the changes are significant, not happening at a "glacial" pace, and are profoundly affecting alpine regions. There is a consistent result that reverberates from mountain range to mountain range, which emphasizes that although regional glacier and climate feedbacks differ, global changes are driving the response. This book considers ten different glaciated regions around the individual glaciers, and offers a different tune to the same chorus of glacier volume loss in the face of climate change.
