_Itinera per Helvetiæ Alpinas Regiones Facta._ By Johann Jacob
Scheuchzer. 1723.
_Die Alpen._ By A. von Haller. 1732.
_An Account of the Glaciers or Ice Alps in Savoy._ By William
Windham and Peter Martel. 1744.
_Travels in the Alps of Savoy._ By J. D. Forbes. 1843.
_Mont Blanc._ By Albert Smith. 1852.
_The Tour of Mont Blanc._ By J. D. Forbes. 1855.
_Wanderings among the High Alps._ By Alfred Wills. 1856.
_Summer Months among the Alps._ By T. W. Hinchcliff. 1857. (Very
scarce.)
_The Italian Valleys of the Pennine Alps._ By S. W. King. 1858.
_Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers._ (First Series.) 1859. (Scarce and
expensive.)
_Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers._ (Second Series.) (Two volumes.)
(Scarce.) 1862.
_The Eagles’ Nest._ By A. Wills. 1860. (Scarce.)
_The Glaciers of the Alps._ By John Tyndall. 1860.
_Across Country from Thonon to Trent._ By D. W. Freshfield. 1865.
_The Alps in 1864._ By A. W. Moore. (Privately reprinted.) (Very
scarce, reprinted 1902.)
_The High Alps without Guides._ By A. B. Girdlestone. (Scarce.)
1870.
_Scrambles among the Alps._ By Edward Whymper. 1871. This famous
book went into several editions. It has been reprinted in Nelson’s
Shilling Library. The original editions with their delightful
wood-cuts cannot be bought for less than a pound, but are well
worth the money.
_The Playground of Europe._ By Leslie Stephen. 1871. This classic
can be bought for 3_s._ 6_d._ in the Silver Library. The original
edition is scarce and does not contain the best work.
_Hours of Exercise in the Alps._ By J. Tyndall. 1871.
_Italian Alps._ By D. W. Freshfield. 1876.
_The High Alps in Winter._ By Mrs. Fred Burnaby (Mrs. Le Blond.)
1883.
_Above the Snow Line._ By C. T. Dent. 1885.
_The Pioneers of the Alps._ By C. D. Cunningham and W. de W. Abney.
(An account of the great guides.) 1888.
_My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus._ By A. F. Mummery. 1895.
(Reprinted in Nelson’s Shilling Library.)
_The Alps from End to End._ By Sir Martin Conway. 1895. This has
been reprinted in Nelson’s Shilling Library.
_The Annals of Mont Blanc._ By C. E. Mathews. 1898.
_Climbing in the Himalaya and other Mountain Ranges._ By Norman J.
Collie, 1902. Includes some excellent chapters on the Alps.
_The Alps._ Described by Sir Martin Conway. Illustrated by A.
O. M’Cormick. 1904. A cheap edition without Mr. M’Cormick’s
illustrations has been issued in 1910.
_My Alpine Jubilee._ By Frederic Harrison. 1908.
_Recollections of an Old Mountaineer._ By Walter Larden. 1910.
_Peaks and Pleasant Pastures._ By Claud Schuster. 1911.
The poetry of Mountaineering as distinct from the poetry of mountains
is found in--
_Wind and Hill._ By G. W. Young. 1909.
This book is out of print. The mountain poems have been reprinted in--
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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