The Story Of The Hills A Book About Mountains For General Readers PDF Download

Excerpt from The Story of the Hills: A Book About Mountains, for General Readers Now that travelling is no longer a luxury for the rich, and thousands Of people go every summer to spend their holidays among the mountains Of Europe, and ladies climb Mont Blanc or ramble among the Carpathians, there must be many who would like to know some thing of the secret of the hills, their origin, their architecture, and the forces that made them what they are. For such this book is chiefly written. Those will best understand it who take it with them on their travels, and endeavour by its use to interpret what they see among the mountains; and they will find that a little observation goes a long way to help them to read mountain history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.