- Mountains, Nature, Travel, Mountaineering
Why do so many feel compelled to risk their lives climbing mountains? During the climbing season, one person a day dies in the Alps, and more people die climbing in this season in Scotland than they do on the roads.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Character-led, grave, earnest and contemplative.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- rawmeticulous
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
YesNoUnclear
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Robert Macfarlane
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 306
- Publisher
- Granta, Vintage, Matthes & Seitz Verlag
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783957575241
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 1 have read it and 28 want to.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
A Sand County Almanac 196481% alikeBoth character-led, earnest, contemplative.
On the Bus with Rosa Parks 199980% alikeBoth character-led, grave, earnest.
The Souls of Black Folk 190378% alikeBoth character-led, earnest, grave.
Bridge of Sighs 200776% alikeBoth earnest, contemplative, grave.
"The Good War" 198476% alikeBoth earnest, character-led, grave.
The Book of Eels 202076% alikeBoth earnest, contemplative, character-led.
The Living 199276% alikeBoth earnest, grave, contemplative.
A good house 199976% alikeBoth earnest, grave, contemplative.- Meddle 197178% alikeMusic · Both character-led, grave, earnest.
- The Division Bell 199477% alikeMusic · Both character-led, grave, earnest.