Mountain Literature
Giorni di Ghiaccio (Days of ice) - Marco Confortola
By Redazione Published: 02/08/2011
It was lost between a macrobiotic cookbook and an American crime thriller. I struggled to recognise it and for some time I didn't even notice it. Then one day Marco's gaze... Marco Confortola's book was…
La Zampata dell'Orso by Giancarlo Ferron
By Redazione Published: 06/05/2011
And he has done it by describing to us at close quarters an animal that is usually shy and surly. Before talking about the writer, though, we must talk about the man “Giancarlo”. We got…
Guardiano di stelle e di vacche (Keeper of Stars and Cows) - Andrea Nicolussi Golo
By Redazione Published: 30/08/2010
The calling card of this beautiful book is certainly the introduction written by the very well-known Mario Rigoni Stern.A collection of stories this intense can only be the fruit of research, study, work and probably…
La Mia Montagna by Giancarlo Ferron
By Redazione Published: 04/06/2010
The publishing project of Edizioni Biblioteca dell'Immagine can be called decidedly brave.To give a voice to literary works that speak of real life, life where there is no room for fiction but rather the chance…
Gli Orsi della Val Mesath by Adriano Roncali
By Redazione Published: 11/05/2010
"Gli Orsi della Val Mesath" is a simple, direct book. A collection of short stories about mountain life and mountain people, about these gruff "men", and...so far from worldliness that they look like bears in…
La danza degli alberi (The dance of the trees) by Marcus Parisini
By Redazione Published: 13/04/2010
Here is a publisher that has chosen to invest in quality, in the human being, in the added value of a book written with feeling, in deep communion with the world of the mountains. What…
La montagna a modo mio - Reinhold Messner
By Redazione Published: 23/03/2010
Reinhold Messner is perhaps known as the most famous mountaineer in the world. Wrongly so, because Messner is above all a true “maître à penser”.It is staggering how little the mountain itself is present in…
Tomaz Humar - Prigioniero del Ghiaccio
By Redazione Published: 06/01/2010
The blow of the ice axe struck into the ice throws a few fragments of ice onto the climber. It is a small fragment destined to melt among the folds of his clothes.The water soaks…
Mio padre Hermann Buhl (My Father Hermann Buhl) by Kriemhild Buhl
By Alberto Pezzini Published: 03/03/2009
Today it is no longer the time for books meant only for the mountains. We have reached a higher level of sensitivity. Or perhaps just a different one. What has become important, at least this…