The Pyrenees in the Modern Era Reinventions of a Landscape, 1775–2012

• Main Author: Lyons, Martyn
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2018; Bloomsbury Publishing; Bloomsbury Academic
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Cultural History; European History; HISTORY; Modern History; Pyrenees-History; Tourism

This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The...