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Sacred Mountains of the World
by Edwin Bernbaum
Product Group: Book
Publisher: SIERRA CLUB BOOKS (1992-09-15)
ISBN: 0871565080
EAN: 9780871565082
Dewey Decimal #: 291.3509143
Binding/Media: Paperback - 95 pages
Edition: 1ST
Release Date: 1992-09-15
SKU: 05888
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Some edge wear, pen mark on first page.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
In a definitive and critically acclaimed work, Bernbaum explores and celebrates the ways in which people of diverse cultures have viewed mountains they revere throughout the world and takes readers on a fascinating journey to the world's most sacred peaks--Olympus, Sinai, Fuji, Kilimanjaro, and others. 121 photographs. Map
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Amazon.com Review
Mountaineer and scholar of comparative religion Edwin Bernbaum knows his subject from experience as well as from texts. In his award-winning collection of luminous photographs, Sacred Mountains of the World, Bernbaum takes you through the sacred ranges of six continents, while weaving the stories of gods and spirits with those of explorers and mountaineers. The best, most substantive, book of its kind. --Brian Bruya
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Customer Reviews
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Essential!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2002-01-04
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is one of few essential books in my library. It's the encyclopedia of sacred mountains, but also clearly a work of love. Sacred mountains have come to guide my own life in a very profound way, and this book has given wise counsel to such a journey. It is also supremely beautiful with some sublime fullpage photos - worth buying an extra coffee table for!
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Entertaining, thought provoking, a MUST buy
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-04-13
11 out of 11 customers found this reveiw helpful
As a long time mountaineer, I am well versed in the mountaineering literature. My book collection has many treasures, but none as valued as Bernbaum's "Sacred Mountains of the World". This is a book I use to remind me that the lure of the mountains has a spiritual aspect that transcends the lure of conquest. Some mountains are special and Bernbaum, a Buddhist scholar in addition to his work in Asian Studies, tells their stories with great skill. Drawing upon the literature and myths of the past, Bernbaum reminds the modern reader why we should look upon mountains as "embodiments of humanity's highest ideals and aspirations". The book is entertaining as well as thought provoking--the photos are superb. The book is so good, it makes me want to share it with others. I have given it as a gift many times. I enthusiastically give it five stars.
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OKish. It's just an anthology of other books.
Rating  (2)
Date: 1999-05-27
3 out of 17 customers found this reveiw helpful
All Bernbaum has done is to read other people's books and string together their ideas. There's very little that's new here. It's all been done before
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