"On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills: Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scafell" by Henry S. Salt is an early 20th-century travel book where the author shares his experiences and strong love for the mountains of Wales and Cumbria, focusing especially on Snowdon and Scafell. Salt examines ideas about nature, being alone, and the spiritual bond possible in such landscapes, stressing why it's important to protect their beauty. The story begins by presenting Salt's idea that you don't have to travel to far-off places to see amazing mountains, and that the hills in Britain, like those in Carnarvonshire and Cumberland, are just as impressive. Salt introduces the concept of people who visit mountains not just for the physical challenge, but for the peace and inspiration they offer and asks readers to value the life-changing power of these mountain escapes.
On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills: Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scafell
By Henry S. Salt
Embark on a journey of solitude and spiritual awakening amidst the majestic Welsh and Cumbrian mountains, where the true beauty lies not in conquest, but in profound reverence for nature's grandeur.
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About the AuthorHenry Shakespear Stephens Salt was a British writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals. He was a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist, and was well known as a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist. It was Salt who first introduced Mohandas Gandhi to the influential works of Henry David Thoreau, and influenced Gandhi's study of vegetarianism. Salt is considered, by some, to be the "father of animal rights", having been one of the first writers to argue explicitly in favour of animal rights, rather than just improvements to animal welfare, in his book Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1892).
Henry Shakespear Stephens Salt was a British writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals. He was a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist, and was well known as a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist. It was Salt who first introduced Mohandas Gandhi to the influential works of Henry David Thoreau, and influenced Gandhi's study of vegetarianism. Salt is considered, by some, to be the "father of animal rights", having been one of the first writers to argue explicitly in favour of animal rights, rather than just improvements to animal welfare, in his book Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1892).
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