En , un joven grabador londinense recibe el encargo de ilustrar un libro sobre los Alpes. LaComarca Oct 9, You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data. Edward Whymper. References to this work on external resources.
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Arriving home in A. When Sir Hugh drives the monks from his property, his brother, a monk at the monastery, tells him that he has committed a mortal sin, however Sir Hugh steadfastly refuses to yield. He further offends the monastery by sending his younger son, Stephen, to study under Dr. John Wycliffe, who has begun to publicly question the authority of the Church to grant pardon for sin. At the same time, Sir Hugh sends his elder son, Harry, to serve as an attendant to the powerful Duke of Lancaster, who is well-known for his desire to limit the power of the Church and increase the power of the nobility.
These are times of great political and religious upheaval as the desire for freedom spreads throughout England and Europe. As Wycliffe's "poor priests" begin to share the Word of God with the common people, Stephen and Harry and their sisters, Maud and Madge, all find that they have parts to play for the kingdom of God in the turbulent day in which they live.
In , when just twenty-five years of age, Edward Whymper achieved the fame of which he had dreamt as a teenager by making the first ascent of the Matterhorn, the last great unclimbed summit in the Alps. With renown cam notoriety and lasting sorrow, though, due to the catastrophic accident on the descent, which cost the lives of four of his party. Whymper's life was marked by the conquest of the Matterhorn, but his mountaineering achievements have overshadowed his distinction as a wood engraver and book illustrator.
Before he had ever thought about the Alps, while a teenager fulfilling his apprenticeship in the family engraving studio, Whymper kept a diary for six years, detailing his daily life in Lambeth. Showing frequent glimpses of the dry and sardonic humor so characteristic of the older Whymper, the diary is written with a developing style which looks forward to his classic works on mountaineering, Scrambles amongst the Alps and Travels amongst the the great Andes of the Equator.
Providing a rare picture of the workings of a wood engraving studio during the heyday of this reproductive medium, the diary also reveals the world of his father, Josiah, and those London-based artists seeking to make a living from their water-color painting.
An avid reader of The Times, the young Whymper's diary follows the events of the day - the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, the affairs of Parliament, notorious trials, business scandals - and also the many fires and daily catastrophes so prevalent in Victorian London. This edition reproduces the complete text of Whymper's first diary for the first time.
He was born in London on the 27th of April The son of an artist Josiah Wood Whymper and Elizabeth Claridge, he was at an early age trained to the profession of a wood-engraver. He was the second of eleven children, his older brother being the artist and explorer Frederick Whymper. In he was commissioned to make a series of sketches of Alpine scenery, and undertook an extensive journey in the Central and Western Alps. Among the objects of this tour was the illustration of an attempt, which proved unsuccessful, made by Professor Bonncy's party, to ascend Mont Pelvoax, at that time believed to be the highest peak of the Dauphinc Alps.
He successfully accomplished the ascent in the first of a series of expeditions that threw much light on the topography of a district at that time very imperfectly mapped. From the summit of Mont Pelvoux he discovered that it was overtopped by a neighbouring peak, subsequently named the Pointe des Rorins, which, before the annexation of Savoy added Mont Blanc to the possessions of France, was the highest point in lhe French Alps. Its ascent by Mr Whymper's party in was perhaps the most remarkable feat of mountaineering up to that date.
The years to are filled with a number of new expeditions in the Mont Blanc group and the Pennine Alps, among them the ascent of the Aiguille Verte and the crossing of the Morning Fass. Professor Tyndall and Mr Whymper emulated each other in fruitless attempts to reach the summit of the Matterhorn by the south-western or Italian ridge. Mr Whymper, six times repulsed, determined to try the eastern face, convinced that its precipitous appearance when viewed from Zermatt was an optical illusion, and that the dip of the strata, which on the Italian side formed a continuous series of overhangs, should make the opposite side a natural staircase.
His attempt by what is now the usual route was crowned with success 14th of July ; but on the descent four of the party slipped and were killed, and only the breaking of the rope saved Mr Whymper and the two remaining guides from the same fate. The account of his attempts on the Matterhorn occupies the greater part of his Scrambles among the Alps , in which the illustrations are engraved by the author himself, and arc very beautiful.
His campaign of had been planned to exercise his judgment in the choice of routes as a preparation for an expedition to Greenland This resulted in an important collection of fossil plants, which were described by Professor Heer and deposited in the British Museum. Ejemplar nuevo. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo.
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