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A study of how Nanga Parbat, the ninth-highest peak on earth, became the German "mountain of the mind."
本书是德国A.L.魏格纳关于大陆漂移假说的著作。1915年出版。魏格纳在这本书里系统地阐述、论证了他在1912年提出的大陆漂移说。全书分3篇共13章,阐述了大陆漂移学说的基本内容及其与传统学说的关系,并提供了大量的证据,得出大陆漂移的结论,开创了地质学的新时期。
At the outbreak of the First World War, an entire generation of young men charged into battle for what they believed was a glorious cause. Over the next four years, that cause claimed the lives of some 13 million soldiers--more than twice the number killed in all the major wars from 1790 to 1914. But despite this devastating toll, the memory fostered by the belligerents was not of the grim reality of its trench warfare and battlefield carnage. Instead, the nations that fought commemorated the war's sacredness and the martyrdom of those who had died for the greater glory of the fatherland. The sanctification of war is the subject of this pioneering work by well-known European historian George...