Mountains of the Mind: A History of Fascination electro-optics 74 line drawings in the

74 line drawings in the text (including on the titlepage) and 24 plans (of churches

15 full-page illustrations and numerous vignettes and head and tailpiece

The book was published in a tentative and small first printing in January 1963

Old gift inscription to the front free end paper

Mountains of the Mind: A History of Fascination electro-optics 74 line drawings in theLondon: Granta, 2003. 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?