Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination by Robert Macfarlane

Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination

Robert Macfarlane

320 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history nature travel adventurous reflective slow-paced
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Robert Macfarlane's Mountains of the Mind is the most interesting of the crop of books published to mark the 50th anniversary of the first successful ascent of Everest. Macfarlane is both a mountaineer and a scholar. Consequently we get more than ...

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Moods

adventurous 89%
informative 87%
reflective 68%
inspiring 50%
challenging 18%
emotional 10%
dark 6%
relaxing 6%
sad 6%
mysterious 4%
hopeful 2%
lighthearted 2%
tense 2%

Pace

slow 53%
medium 44%
fast 2%

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