The Man Who Married A Mountain: A Journey Through the French Pyrenees - Softcover

Bailey, Rosemary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553815237 ISBN 13: 9780553815238

Publisher: Transworld Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

Henry Russell, 19th-century mountaineer and explorer, combined a thirst for travel with a typically French attachment to his own region. He climbed every mountain in the Pyrenees and reveled in nature’s extremes. In The Man Who Married a Mountain, Rosemary Bailey finds not only Russell but a whole cast of 19th-century visitors, striding up the glaciers in tweed jackets and hobnailed boots. English, Americans, Russians, and many others, from Tennyson to Flaubert, colonized the Pyrenees in search of the Sublime, the Picturesque, the Beautiful. Bailey weaves together Russell’s story with her own experience of the Pyrenees, living in a converted monastery and sharing her life with those who also seek refuge in this magical land.

About this title

About the Author:

Rosemary Bailey is the editor of three Insight guides to France and the project editor for the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness guide to France. SCARLET RIBBONS, her book about her brother - an Anglican priest who died from AIDS in 1996 - was published by Serpent's Tail in 1997. She lives at Corbiac in the French Pyrenees with her partner, the biographer Barry Miles and their young son, Theo.

About this edition

• Publisher: Transworld Publishers
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0553815237
• ISBN 13: 9780553815238
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448