Product description
Driving Through the Alps is not simply a book: it is a work that celebrates the union between courage and beauty, between challenge and discovery. Three valuable volumes, designed to be kept, consulted and handed down, as a testimony to a golden age and the genius of a man who knew how to dream beyond the borders of the possible. Made with the highest quality materials, with over 800 pages of content, enriched with thousands of historical images and photographs, the unique story of the pioneer of motoring Charles Lincoln Freeston, the man who first dared to cross the Alps by car. British explorer and journalist, who opened the Alps to individual transport with his example: 177 alpine passes through 8 states by car. His travel guide, released in 1911, is proposed here for the first time in Italian and English, commented and enriched with thousands of period images found in over twenty years of historical investigation, framed by a captivating narrative halfway between the novel and the rigorous academic research.
The book not only celebrates the adventures of Freeston, but is also a tool for reflection and dialogue on the Alps, their transformations and man’s ability to integrate with the surrounding environment without destroying it. For this reason, Driving Through the Alps is more than just a narrative: it is a tribute to the Alps as the cultural hinge of Europe, as a space of dialogue between eight different nations, between peoples who have always shared these mountains and who, thanks to pioneers like Freeston, have learned to see beyond the peaks.
This is a work that is browsed, admired, consulted over and over again. A travel companion, to be kept at hand whenever you feel driven by the desire to discover something more, on those peaks that have inspired poets and writers, but also on that world of explorers who, like Freeston, have gone further, tracing routes that today seem familiar, but that at the time were pure avant-garde.
