Mountains So Sublime: Nineteenth-Century British Travellers and the Lure of the Rocky Mountain West

By Terry Abraham

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ISBN 1-55238-181-1
224 pp., b&w photographs
7.5" x 5.5"

Canadian Studies
Environmental Studies

About the Book

Culled from both published and unpublished accounts, these descriptions of the Rocky Mountain West by British adventurers, poets, and journalists represent a long tradition of relating to landscape and its appreciation in art. These early travellers found a landscape in the Rocky Mountain West not yet spoiled, and through the aesthetic of romantic poetry and landscape painting were able to describe the vastness and sheer beauty of their surroundings. These fascinating accounts underscore the realization at the end of the nineteenth century that the Rocky Mountains were a unique and treasured contribution to the world’s natural cultural heritage. In the hundred years following these accounts the settlement of the West dramatically altered this serene landscape; however, this collection of letters gives the reader a glimpse of an unspoiled terrain, and familiar places recounted by unfamiliar eyes can thus be seen anew.   

About the Author

Terry Abraham is a professor at the University of Idaho as well as Head of the Special Collections and Archives. A native of Oregon, Terry has lived in Idaho since 1970.            

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