Italian Alps / Sketches in the Mountains of Ticino, Lombardy, the Trentino, and Venetia
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Chapters (447)
- ITALIAN ALPS
- NOTE.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- APPENDICES.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS.
- CHAPTER I. VAL MAGGIA.
- CHAPTER II. VAL VERZASCA AND VAL CANOBBINA.
- CHAPTER III. WEST OF THE BERNINA. THE PEAKS AND PASSES OF VAL MASINO.[12]
- CHAPTER IV. THE PEAKS AND PASSES OF VAL MASINO (continued).
- CHAPTER V. EAST OF THE BERNINA. TARASP AND THE LIVIGNO DISTRICT.
- CHAPTER VI. THE BERGAMASQUE MOUNTAINS.
- CHAPTER VII. VAL CAMONICA AND THE GIUDICARIA.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE PRESANELLA AND VAL DI GENOVA.
- CHAPTER IX. THE ADAMELLO AND CARÈ ALTO.
- CHAPTER X. PINZOLO AND CAMPIGLIO.
- CHAPTER XI. THE BRENTA GROUP.[58]
- CHAPTER XII. THE PASSES OF PRIMIERO.
- CHAPTER XIII. THE PELMO AND VAL DI ZOLDO.
- CHAPTER XIV. MEN AND MOUNTAINS.
- APPENDICES.
- APPENDIX A. NOTES FOR TRAVELLERS.
- CHAPTERS I., II. VAL MAGGIA—VAL VERZASCA—VAL CANOBBINA.
- Approaches and Carriage-roads.
- Inns.
- Peaks and Passes.
- Routes.
- CHAPTERS III., IV. THE PEAKS AND PASSES OF VAL MASINO.
- Approaches and Carriage-roads.
- Inns.
- Passes of Val Masino.
- Peaks.
- Routes.
- CHAPTER V. TARASP AND THE LIVIGNO DISTRICT.
- Approaches and Carriage roads.
- Inns.
- Passes from the Southern Rhine Valley into the Lower Engadine.
- Excursions from Tarasp.
- Livigno District.—Passes.
- Livigno District.—Peaks.
- Routes.
- CHAPTER VI. BERGAMASQUE VALLEYS.
- Approaches and Carriage-roads.
- Inns.
- Routes.
- CHAPTERS VII., VIII., IX., X., XI. ADAMELLO AND BRENTA GROUPS.
- Approaches and Carriage-roads.
- Inns.
- THE ADAMELLO GROUP
- Passes.
- Peaks.
- THE BRENTA GROUP. Passes.
- Peaks.
- EXCURSIONS FROM PINZOLO.
- EXCURSIONS FROM CAMPIGLIO.
- Routes.
- CHAPTER XII. THE PRIMIERO DISTRICT.
- Approaches.
- Inns.
- Passes. ROUND THE PRIMIERO GROUP.
- ACROSS THE GROUP.
- Peaks. IN THE PRIMIERO GROUP.
- EXCURSIONS FROM PRIMIERO.
- Routes.
- CHAPTER XIII. VAL DI ZOLDO.
- Inns.
- Approaches.
- Peaks.
- Passes.
- APPENDIX B. PICTURES AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE BERGAMASQUE VALLEYS.
- APPENDIX C. ROUTES FROM SANTA CATARINA TO VAL DI SOLE.
- APPENDIX D. THE CHURCHES OF VAL RENDENA.
- APPENDIX E. THE NOMENCLATURE OF THE BRENTA GROUP.
- APPENDIX F. TYROL v. TIROL.
- INDEX.[105]
- FOOTNOTES
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