Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mapping Mountains -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction -- 1 The Traditional Historiography and its Challengers -- 1.1 Just What is a Mountain Anyway? -- 1.2 Traditional Historiography -- 1.3 Challenging Traditional Historiography -- 1.4 A Rather Brief Overview of Contemporary Cartographic Relief Presentation -- 2 Paradise and Pilgrimage -- 3 Colonial and Postcolonial Peaks -- 4 Profiles and Panoramas -- 5 Touristed Itineraries -- Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgements.

Mountains appear in the oldest known maps yet their representation has proven a notoriously difficult challenge for map makers. In this essay, Ernesto Capello surveys the broad history of relief representation in cartography with an emphasis on the allegorical, commercial and political uses of mapping mountains. After an initial overview and critique of the traditional historiography and development of techniques of relief representation, the essay features four clusters of mountain mapping emphases. These include visions of mountains as paradise, the mountain as site of colonial and postcolonial encounter, the development of elevation profiles and panoramas, and mountains as mass-marketed touristed itineraries.

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