Mountains of the Mind (42 page)

Samuel Butler,
Life and Habit
(London: Trübner, 1878)

Frank Cunningham,
James David Forbes, Pioneer Scottish Glaciologist
(Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1990)

James L. Dyson,
The World of Ice
(London: The Cresset Press, 1963)

James David Forbes,
Travels through the Alps of Savoy
(Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1843)

Edward Peck, ‘The Search for Khan Tengri’,
Alpine Journal
, vol. 101, no. 345 (1996), 131–9 Richard Pococke,
A Description of the East and Some Other Countries
, 2 vols. (London: J. & R. Knapton, 1743–5)

Robert Ker Porter,
Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylon, etc.
, 2 vols. (London: Longman, 1821–2)

John Ruskin,
The Collected Works
, ed. E. T. Cook and A. Wedderburn, 39 vols. (London: G. Allen, 1903–12)

Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Peacock’s Memoirs of Shelley: with Shelley’s Letters to Peacock
, ed. H. F. B. Brett-Smith (London: H. Frowde, 1909)

John Tyndall,
The Glaciers of the Alps
(London: John Murray, 1860)

Mark Twain,
A Tramp Abroad
(London: Chatto & Windus, 1901, first published 1880)

William Windham,
Account of the Glacieres or Ice Alps in Savoy
(London: 1744)

Richard D. Altick,
The Shows of London
(Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press, 1978)

John Auldjo,
Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc
(London: Longmans, 1828)

Gaston Bachelard,
Air and Dreams
, trans. Edith R. Farrell and C. Frederick Farrell (Dallas: The Dallas Institute Publication, 1988, first published 1943)

Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan,
Mountain Men
(London: Boxtree, 2001)

Alain Corbin,
The Lure of the Sea
, trans. Jocelyn Phelps (Paris, 1988, London: Penguin, 1990)

John Evelyn,
The Diary of John Evelyn
, ed. E. S. de Beer, 6 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955)

Bruce Haley,
The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978)

John Muir,
My First Summer in the Sierra
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911)

Jim Ring,
How the English Made the Alps
(London: John Murray, 2000)

Percy Bysshe Shelley,
The Poems of Shelley
, ed. Geoffrey Matthews and Kelvin Everest, 2 vols. (London: Longmans, 1989)

Joe Simpson,
The Beckoning Silence
(London: Jonathan Cape, 2002)

Andrew Wilson,
The Abode of Snow
, 2nd edn (Edinburgh: London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1876)

Geoffrey Winthrop Young,
The Influence of Mountains upon the Development of Human Intelligence
(London: Jackson, Son & Company, 1957)

J. R. L. Anderson,
The Ulysses Factor
(London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970)

Colonel S. G. Burrard and H. H. Hayden,
A Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet
(Calcutta: Government of India, Geological Survey of India, 1907–8)

Joseph Conrad,
Heart of Darkness
(London: Penguin, 1973, first published 1902 as a novella, 1899 as a serial)

Joseph Conrad,
Lord Jim
(Edinburgh: Blackwoods, 1900)

George Eliot,
Middlemarch
, ed. W. J. Harvey (London: Penguin, 1985, first published 1871–2)

Douglas Freshfield,
The Exploration of the Caucasus
, 2 vols. (London: Edward Arnold, 1896)

R. L. G. Irving,
The Mountain Way
(London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1938)

Richard Jefferies,
Bevis, the Story of a Boy
(London: Duckworth & Co., 1904)

Jon Krakauer,
Into the Wild
(London: Pan, 1999)

Barry Lopez,
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1986)

Roderick Nash,
Wilderness and the American Mind
(New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1973)

Colonel R. H. Phillimore,
Historical Records of the Survey of India
, 4 vols. (Dehra Dun: Survey of India, 1958)

J. B. Priestley,
Apes and Angels
(London: Methuen & Co., 1928)

Arthur Ransome,
Swallows and Amazons
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1930)

Eric Shipton,
Blank on the Map
(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936)

Susan Solnit,
Wanderlust: a History of Walking
(London: Penguin, 2000)

Wilfred Thesiger,
The Life of My Choice
(London: Collins, 1987)

Abbé Pluche,
Spectacle de la Nature … Being Discourses on Such PARTICULARS of Natural History as Were Thought Most Proper to Excite the Curiosity and Form the Minds of Youth
, trans. Mr Humphreys, 3rd edn (London: L. Davis, 1736)

Charles Dickens,
Little Dorrit
, ed. J. Holloway (London: Penguin Classics, 1985, first published 1855–7)

Conrad Gesner,
On the Admiration of Mountains
, trans. W. Dock (San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1937)

C. S. Lewis,
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: a story for children
(London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950)

Claude Reichler and Roland Ruffieux,
Le Voyage en Suisse
(Paris, Robert Laffont, 1998)

Jacob Scheuchzer,
Itinera per Helvetiae Alpinas Regiones
(London: Vander, 1723)

Barbara Maria Stafford,
Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760–1840
(Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1984)

John Tyndall,
Hours of Exercise in the Alps
(London: Longmans, 1871)

Roland Barthes,
Mythologies
, trans. Annette Lavers (London: Paladin, 1973)

Peter Bishop,
The Myth of Shangri-La: Tibet, Travel Writing and the Western Creation of Sacred Landscape
(The Athlone Press: London, 1989)

Robert Bridges, ed.,
The Spirit of Man
(London: Longmans & Co., 1916)

C. G. Bruce,
Twenty Years in the Himalaya
(London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1910)

C. G. Bruce,
The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922
(London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1923)

John Buchan,
The Last Secrets
(London: Thomas Nelson, 1923)

Patrick French,
Younghusband
(London: HarperCollins, 1994)

Peter and Leni Gillman,
The Wildest Dream: Mallory, His Life and Conflicting Passions
(London: Headline, 2000). I publicly misjudged this fine biography when it appeared, a misjudgement for which I have apologized, but apologize again.

Michael Holroyd,
Lytton Strachey
(London: Vintage, 1995)

C. K. Howard-Bury and George Mallory,
Mount Everest: the Reconnaissance, 1921
(London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1922)

S. C. Joshi, ed.,
Nepal Himalaya; Geo-ecological Perspectives
(Naini Tal: Himalayan Research Group, 1986)

John Keay,
When Men and Mountains Meet: the Explorers of the Western Himalaya
(London: John Murray, 1977)

Kenneth Mason,
Abode of Snow
(London: Diadem Books, 1987)

John Noel,
Through Tibet to Everest
(London: Edward Arnold, 1927)

David Pye,
George Leigh Mallory
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1927)

Cecil Godfrey Rawling,
The Great Plateau, Being an Account of Exploration in Central Tibet, 1903, and of the Gartok Expedition 1904–1905
(London: Edward Arnold, 1905)

David Robertson,
George Mallory
(London: Faber, 1969)

Royal Geographical Society and Mount Everest Foundation,
The Mountains of Central Asia
(London: Macmillan, 1987)

Audrey Salkeld and Tom Holzel,
The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine
(London: Pimlico, 1999)

J. R. Smith,
Everest: the Man and the Mountain
(London: Whittles, 1999)

Walt Unsworth,
Everest
, 3rd edn (Seattle: The Mountaineers, 2000)

C. J. Wessels,
Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia 1603–1721
(The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1924)

Geoffrey Winthrop Young,
On High Hills
(London: Methuen, 1933)

Francis Younghusband,
Everest: the Challenge
(London: Nelson, 1936)

James Joyce,
Dubliners
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1926, first published 1914)

The
Alpine Journal
, a magnificent and venerable publication, has been an essential source of material, from its earliest avatar (as
Peaks, Passes and Glaciers
) through to the most recent issues. I have also drawn on, though not detailed, articles from
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Cornhill Magazine, Daily News, Philosophical Magazine, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
and
The Times
.

Many books have been of general secondary use. Among the most valuable are Phil Bartlett,
The Undiscovered Country
(London: The Ernest Press, 1993); Ronald Clark,
The Victorian Mountaineers
(London: Batsford, 1953); Fergus Fleming,
Killing Dragons
(London: Granta, 2000); Wilfrid Noyce,
Scholar Mountaineers: Pioneers of Parnassus
(London: Dennis Dobson, 1950); Keith Thomas’s superb
Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500–1800
(London: Allen Lane, 1983); and Walt Unsworth,
Hold the Heights: the Foundations of Mountaineering
(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1994). Jan Morris’s
Pax Britannica
trilogy (London: Faber, 1968, 1973, 1978) provided me with an unequalled sense of what the British nineteenth century was
like
, as well as a trove of information.

The spelling of the names of Scottish mountains is a vexed business. I have adhered to the names as they are given in Donald Bennet, ed.,
The Munros
(Edinburgh: The Scottish Mountaineering Trust, 1985).