Veronica della Dora is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her books include Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Place from Homer to World War II (2011) and Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium (2016).
This delightful tribute to mountains judiciously blends an aesthetic appreciation of mountains with an objective understanding of their geographic features. Recommended. -- Choice