Mountains of the Mind: A History of Fascination

Publisher's hardback with the slightly rubbed dust-jacket. 306 pages. Illusts and diags in the text. A VG+ copy. Three centuries ago mountains were considered a repellent form in landscape - to be avoided at all cost - so why is it that millions are people are drawn to them every year, often risking their lives. How have mountains come to exert such a strange and sometimes fatal hold on the human psyche?