Emeritus Professor Martyn Lyons: 1 book

Book cover of The Pyrenees in the Modern Era

The Pyrenees in the Modern Era

Reinventions of a Landscape, 1775-2012

by Emeritus Professor Martyn Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018

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...
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