The Alps

The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately 750 mi (1,210 km) across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, and Slovenia.

Beneath a Scarlet Sky
One by One
The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to,and Beyond
The Escape
Ein ganzes Leben
Christmas in the Snow
The Magic Mountain
The Sojourn
The Chalet
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Starlight and Storm: The Conquest of the Great North Faces of the Alps (Modern Library Exploration)
Le otto montagne
Shiver
Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
L'Affaire
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienBanner in the Sky by James Ramsey UllmanMystery of the Fleeing Girl by Showell StylesThe Mountain of Adventure by Enid BlytonMy Side of the Mountain Trilogy by Jean Craighead George
Mountaineering in Juvenile Fiction
66 books — 5 voters
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonBrokeback Mountain by Annie ProulxThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerGo Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Mountains
742 books — 115 voters

The Mountains of My Life by Walter BonattiThe White Spider by Heinrich HarrerEdge of the Map by Johanna GartonKilimanjaro and Beyond by Barry FinlayAnnapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak by Maurice Herzog
Mountaineering
22 books — 27 voters
The Apple and the Arrow by Mary BuffThe Magic Meadow by Ingri d'AulaireWilliam Tell by Nina BawdenWilliam Tell by Katharine SchermanWilliam Tell by Paul D. Storrie
Wilhelm Tell - William Tell
23 books — 1 voter

Wild by Cheryl StrayedA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonAnd the Mountains Echoed by Khaled HosseiniScene of the Climb by Kate E. Dyer-SeeleyInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Mountains Are Calling...
171 books — 13 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakA castle in Bavaria by Thibaut OrléansThe Hangman's Daughter by Oliver PötzschThis Is Munich by Miroslav SasekThe Taster by V.S. Alexander
Germany by State: Bavaria / Bayern
86 books — 4 voters


Thomas Bernhard
After my parents were dead, I found in a box and in two chests of drawers nothing but hundreds of bright red Alpine caps, I said, nothing but bright red Alpine stockings. Every one of them knitted by my mother. My parents could have gone into the High Alps with these bright red caps and bright red stockings for thousands of years. I burnt every one of those bright red caps and bright red stockings, I said. I put on one of my mother's hundreds of bright red Alpine caps and in this costume burnt a ...more
Thomas Bernhard, Goethe schtirbt: Erzählungen

Jill Alexander Essbaum
Yes, you do hate Switzerland. And," doctor Messerli paused for effect, "you love it. You love it and you hate it. What you don't feel is apathy. You're not indifferent. You're ambivalent." Anna had thought about this before, when nights came during which she could do nothing but wander Dietlikon's sleeping streets or hike the hill behind her house to sit upon the bench where most often she went to weep. She'd considered her ambivalence many, many times, and in the end, she's diagnosed herself wi ...more
Jill Alexander Essbaum

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