General Sources
The Alpine Journal, a magnificent and venerable publication, has been an essential source of material, from its earliest avatar (as Peaks, Passes and Glaciers) through to the most recent issues. I have also drawn on, though not detailed, articles from Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Cornhill Magazine, Daily News, Philosophical Magazine, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and The Times.
Many books have been of general secondary use. Among the most valuable are Phil Bartlett, The Undiscovered Country (London: The Ernest Press, 1993); Ronald Clark, The Victorian Mountaineers (London: Batsford, 1953); Fergus Fleming, Killing Dragons (London: Granta, 2000); Wilfrid Noyce, Scholar Mountaineers: Pioneers of Parnassus (London: Dennis Dobson, 1950); Keith Thomas’s superb Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500–1800 (London: Allen Lane, 1983); and Walt Unsworth, Hold the Heights: the Foundations of Mountaineering (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1994). Jan Morris’s Pax Britannica trilogy (London: Faber, 1968, 1973, 1978) provided me with an unequalled sense of what the British nineteenth century was like, as well as a trove of information.
The spelling of the names of Scottish mountains is a vexed business. I have adhered to the names as they are given in Donald Bennet, ed., The Munros (Edinburgh: The Scottish Mountaineering Trust, 1985).
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