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This photographic delight of 100 images will inspire a lifetime's worth of new dreams. Fall under the spell of the Alps and their amazine diversity of scenery.From the Maritime Alps behind Nice, to the sun-washed Julians of Slovenia, the Alpine chain is one of the most scenically diverse and stimulating ranges on earth. With glacier and snowfield, meadow, scree and rockface, it is subtle beauty is revealed in a assortment of landscape features, while peaks such as Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau are mountains of which dreams are made and ambitions forged. But the best of the Alps are not the sole preserve of the climber, as this collection of photographs prove. The winding trail taken by walkers and trekkers leads to innumerable vantage points that unfold scenes of heart-stopping splendour, and Alpine addict Kev Reynolds has chosen a hundred of his favourites. Alpine Points of View seduces the reader out of the armchair and into Europe's premier range, with illustrations and text creating dreams to be turned into reality.

About the AuthorKev Reynolds is a freelance writer, photojournalist and lecturer whose primary title for Cicerone Press (Walks and Climbs in the Pyrenees) appeared in 1978, and is still in print. He has published numerous books on the Alps, a series of trekkers' guides to Nepal and various guides on walking in southern England. A fellow member of the Alpine club.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Nice Mountain Photography Book
By G. Pearson
100 photos in a 200 page book with the photos on the right and text on the left page. The photos are mainly taken from high altitude hiking trails and I find them rather inspirational and oftentimes say to myself "wow" I wish I could be there !!
It is a smallish and nicely staged book that hikers or nature lovers wanting a taste of arousing and attention holding hiking country, will enjoy. Recommended.

1 of 1 humans found the following review helpful.
not bad
By Jacek Jawien
I am a little bit disappointed by this book.
I was expecting "typical", "canonical" views from the most widely known and esteemed places in Alps - as a stimulus for me to see them myself in future.

Instead, I have received collection of beautiful, nonetheless completly unrecognized pictures from exclusively unknown places. Perhaps that was an idea of the author.

But for me, it was disappointing.

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