Edward Whymper (1840–1911)
Autore di Scrambles Amongst the Alps
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Edward Whymper in 1910 [source: The Alpine Club]
Opere di Edward Whymper
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Whymper, Edward
- Data di nascita
- 1840-04-27
- Data di morte
- 1911-09-16
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Chamonix, France
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Chamonix, France
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Chamonix, France - Attività lavorative
- mountaineer
explorer
illustrator
author - Relazioni
- Whymper, Frederick (brother)
Whymper, Charles (brother)
Whymper, Josiah Wood (father) - Organizzazioni
- Alpine Club
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society
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- Opere
- 13
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 290
- Popolarità
- #80,656
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 50
- Lingue
- 4
The volume I read was prepared for the National Geographic Adventure Classics series. Curiously, the dramatic cover illustration is of the Dent Blanche and not the Matterhorn, the latter of which made Whymper famous and controversial. Whymper addresses those controversies at length. How satisfactorily he does will be matter for varying opinion, particularly for anyone adhering to Reinhold Messner’s interpretation of the event in Fall of Heaven: Whymper’s Tragic Matterhorn Climb (I do not). This edition has many footnotes from Whymper not in the original. They supplement the text well and on rare occasion caused me to question the author’s strict veracity, giving them that little extra bit of tang.… (altro)