Mountain Literature
L'euforia delle cime by Anne-Laure Boch
By Redazione Published: 12/03/2013
Women in the mountains and the euphoria of the peaks...An exhilarating book for its pressing, rhythmic, almost dancing pace. A weave of emotions and reasoning far removed from cold, sterile theoretical speculation. This woman's pen,…
L'ebbrezza del camminare (The intoxication of walking) by Emeric Fisset
By Redazione Published: 06/02/2013
Published in the series “Piccola filosofia di viaggio”, Emeric Fisset's book is one of those books that wrong-foot you and strike you at the same time. A point of view that turns upside down our…
Le ombre dell'Everest (Ghosts of Everest) - Simonson, Hemmleb, Johnson, Nothdurft
By Redazione Published: 14/09/2012
The truth about the legendary Mallory and Irvine expeditionLe ombre dell'Everest. The truth about the legendary Mallory and Irvine expedition. Jochen Hemmleb, Larry A. Johnson, Eric R. Simonson with William E. Nothdurft. In the history…
Il pastore che amava i libri (The shepherd who loved books) by Italo Zandonella Calleger
By Redazione Published: 24/08/2012
Reading is like flying: you can beat the wings of imagination, but it is the wind that decides where to take you. On the lines of a summer breeze you can discover how wonderful the…
Terre alte, il libro della montagna (High Lands, the book of the mountain) - Carlo Grande
By Redazione Published: 20/08/2012
A book has come out, small in format. It sits well in the hand. It has a title that smacks of sweat and poetry, though! At least, you need a little mountain sensibility to catch…
Alpinisti Sottaceto (Pickled Mountaineers) - Manuel Lugli
By Redazione Published: 22/06/2012
We bought it, yes, “Alpinisti Sottaceto” (Pickled Mountaineers) is a book that holds within it all the power of a packet of fruit sweets.The sweets are short mini-biographies of mountaineers, some better known to the…
Dolomiti, giorni verticali (Dolomites, vertical days) by Stefano Ardito
By Redazione Published: 13/06/2012
Climbs on the Pale Mountains… The Dolomites are famous mountains, the most beautiful and most “climbed” in the world. From the years of the 19th-century pioneers to those of grade IX and X, many generations…
Legends of the Monti Sibillini
By Redazione Published: 13/06/2012
The book, published by Edizioni “Voce del Santuario Madonna dell'Ambro” (Montefortino, AP), is already in its 5th reprint. The price of €8.00 seems more than reasonable for a text of considerable value which first of…
Dan Osman - Inseguendo la paura (Fall of the Phantom Lord)
By Redazione Published: 12/06/2012
All stories are stories told. The one in this book is one of the many stories that could be told about the life of Dan Osman. A life certainly observed from a privileged position, but…