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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Alps
    sub title: a human history from Hannibal to Heidi and beyond
  name:
    name part: O'Shea, Stephen
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 318 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: A thrilling blend of contemporary travelogue and historical narrative about the Alps from 'a graceful and passionate writer' (Washington Post). For centuries the Alps have seen the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers and the dreams of engineers, and some 14 million people live among their peaks today. In The Alps, Stephen O'Shea takes readers up and down these majestic mountains, journeying through their 500-mile arc across France, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia. Along the way, he explores the reality behind Hannibal and his elephants' famous crossing in 218 BCE. He reveals how the Alps have profoundly influenced culture from Frankenstein to Heidi to The Sound of Music, and he visits the spot where Arthur Conan Doyle staged Sherlock Holmes's death scene, the bloody site of the Italians' retreat in World War I and Hitler's notorious vacation house, the Eagle's Nest. Throughout, O'Shea records his adventures with the watch makers, salt miners, cable-car operators and yodelers who define the Alps today.
  table of contents: List of maps -- A note on measurement -- Part One. Lake Geneva to the Gotthard Pass -- Part Two. Heidiland to Grindelwald -- Part Three. Innsbruck to Trieste.
  note: Stephen O'Shea.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    geographic code: ea-----
  subject:
    name:
      name part: O'Shea, Stephen
    topic: Travel
    geographic: Alps
  subject:
    geographic: Alps
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Alps
    topic: Description and travel
  subject:
    topic: Historic sites
    geographic: Alps
  subject:
    geographic: Alps
    topic: History, Local
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe
  subject:
    topic: NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Mountains
  subject:
    topic: TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues
  classification: DQ823.5 .O84 2017
  classification: 949.4/7
  identifier: 9780393246858
  identifier: 039324685X
  identifier: 2016038506
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161130
    record change date: 20170926113542.0
    record identifier: in00003859869