Abstract
SIR WILLIAM CONWAY has given us in this new work a racy account of a three months' summer journey through the Alps from west to east. To a climber of Himalayan fame it was not much that the “Playground of Europe” had to offer in the way of enterprise or difficulty. Neither was it Sir William Conway's intention to combine scientific aims with his mountaineering feats in the Alps, as he had done in the Himalayas. The purpose he had in view was
The Alps from End to End.
By Sir William Martin Conway. With 100 full-page illustrations by A. D. M‘Cormick. Pp. xii + 397. (Westminster: Constable and Co., 1895.)
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The Alps from End to End. Nature 53, 193–194 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053193a0
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