The Ascent of John Tyndall

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Published by Oxford University Press, 2018, 1st Edition, D/w, Fine.   Signed by the Author.   In the first major biography of John Tyndall (1820-1893) since 1945, Roland Jackson recounts the life of one of the leading scientific figures of the mid-19th century, Fellow of the Royal Society and close friend of Faraday, Huxley, Carlyle and Tennyson.  Tyndall was also a member of the Alpine Club and regularly visited the Alps from 1856 onward, initially for scientific reasons, but ended up becoming a pioneering mountain climber.  He was on the first ascent of the Weisshorn in 1861, led an early team to reach the top of the Matterhorn in 1868 and his is one of the names most associated with the Golden Age of Alpinism.  He published 3 books on his alpine adventures, The Glaciers of the Alps, Being A Narrative of Excursions and Ascents (1860), Mountaineering in 1861, A Vacation Tour (1862), and Hours of Exercise in the Alps (1871).