In this book on the Dolomites overlooking Cortina, Enrico Rossaro has managed to pick out the characteristics -- one might almost say the personalities -- of the various mountain groups, thus enriching the literature written about mountains for a wide public, with poetic motifs springing from his intense observation of nature and his imagination. A mountain fascinates at first because of its shape, forms, colors: its most striking aspects. Then, as...

Perhaps no other region in the Alpine chain has given rise to so much interest as the Dolomites, and for such different reasons. Mountaineers, geologists, poets and naturalists have all explored, studied and admired this quite unique and marvelous world. In recent years, with the coming of mass tourism, winter sports and the return to nature, the Dolomites dominate the attention of a vast and ever-increasing public. The Alps boast much higher and...