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‘It is often from our setbacks, even our weaknesses, that we derive some of our greatest blessings.’That Untravelled World is the autobiography of one of the greatest adventurers …

‘One of this year's best reads!… HIGHLY recommend!’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars Art college dropout Lucie arrives in a Swiss ski resort looking for work – but instead …

This long-awaited field guide covers more than 2000 of the region’s exceptionally diverse and important plant-life, from the most common species to local endemics. Illustrated …

Heady draws on both participant observation and interviews with older informants to trace the effects of recent exogenous technological and institutional changes, and the way local …

Written as a journal, ‘In the Mountains’ tells the story of an English woman who after WWI decides to escape her personal troubles in London and seeks refuge at her chalet in the …

After more than 3500 years of occupation in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, the many lake-dwellings around the Circum-Alpine region ‘suddenly’ came to an end. Throughout that period …

This book is a completely revised, substantially extended treatment of the physical and biological factors that drive life in high mountains. The book covers the characteristics of …

In 1990, Verner Soler, born in the Swiss village of Vrin, in the Canton of Grisons, and educated as a primary school teacher, travelled to Los Angeles. His intended six-month stay …

A jarringly honest and rip-roaringly entertaining narrative memoir of time spent in the Alps in the mid-2000s on a quest to become a sponsored freestyle skier. The author provides …