The Pyrenees in the modern era : reinventions of a landscape, 1775-2012 /

This study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The book anal...

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Main Author:	Lyons, Martyn (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2018]
Subjects:	Pyrenees > History. Pyrenees > Social conditions. Pyrenees > Description and travel. Basques > History.