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Jenny Rice
July 3, 2020

Mountaineering and British Romanticism by Simon Bainbridge

Jenny Rice
July 3, 2020
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This volume argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally recognised, and shows how writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Walter Scott were central to the activity's evolution.

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