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Record #202685:

Travels through the Alps of Savoy and other parts of the Pennine Chain with observations on the phenomena of glaciers / James David Forbes.

Title: Travels through the Alps of Savoy and other parts of the Pennine Chain with observations on the phenomena of glaciers / James David Forbes.
Author(s): Forbes, James David.
Date: 2011.
Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Abstract: Presents account of author's systematic exploration of alpine mountain regions and glaciers, combining descriptions of scenery and mountaineering feats with detailed records of his scientific research and experiments. Draws on work of scientist and mountaineer Horace Bénédict de Saussure. Aimed at general reader.
Notes:

Originally published: Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843.

Keywords: 551.32 -- Glaciology.
551.324 -- Land ice.
551.324.22 -- Glaciers.
551.33 -- Glacial geology.
551.331 -- Glacial erosion.
551.332 -- Glacial deposition.
001.92 -- General account.
E5 -- Glaciology: land ice.
(234.3) -- Alps.
(4) -- Europe.
(44) -- France.
(494) -- Switzerland.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-SHF: 551.324.22
ISBN: 9781108037662
SPRI record no.: 202685

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