Sir John Lubbock: Scenery of Switzerland and the causes to which it is due Collection of British Authors, Tauchnitz Edition, Band 3211 und 3212 (2 Bände, komplett).

Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1897, 559 (279 + 280) Seiten mit 153 Bildern. Gebunden Kartoniert.

In the summer of 1861 I had the pleasure of spending a short holiday in Switzerland with Huxley and Tyndall. Tyndall and I ascended the Galenstock, and started with Benen, who afterwards lost his life on the Haut de Cry, up the Jungfrau, but were stopped by an accident to one of our porters, who fell into a deep crevasse, from which we had some difficulty in extricating him, as Tyndall has graphically described in his Hours of Exercise on the Alps. From that day to this many of my holidays have been spent in the Alps. On them I have enjoyed many and many delightful days ... - Geology - Origin of Mountains - Mountains of Switzerland - Snow and Ice - Former Extension of Glaciers - Valleys - Action of Rivers - Directions of Rivers - Lakes - Influence of the Strata upon Scenery - Jura - Central Plain - Outer-Alps - Central Massives - Lake of Geneva - Massif of Mont Blanc - Valais - Bernese Oberland - Upper Aar - Zürich and Glarus - Rhine - Reuss - Ticino - Engadine - General Summary.