Background
Knight, Max was born on June 8, 1909 in Vienna, Austria. Arrived in United States, 1941, naturalized, 1943. Son of Bernhard and Margarethe Hoffer Kuhnel.
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San Francisco: Friends of the Earth Publisher. 160 pp, many color photos. Edited, with a foreword and selections from Alpine literature by David R. Brower. Authors include Conrad Gesner, Guido Rey, Gaston Rebuffat, Geoffrey Winthrop Young, James T. Lester, W. H. Murray, et al. Among the world's most scenic mountain ranges and one of Europe's most unique environments, the Swiss Alps have been threatened with environmental degradation for centuries. Large format hardcover
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(This is a personal book, not a guide to the Alps. It is a...)
This is a personal book, not a guide to the Alps. It is a loose collection of episodes remembered by one who loves the mountains, combined with such spots of background as seemed appropriate or interesting. I did not attempt to eplore the Alps systematically. Some areas I never visited; others I visited several times - when I felt that they were inviting me back. I did not try to "cover" all aspects or areas of the Alps. Many that are considered "must'sees" I have not seen. Leslie Stephen, a British nineteenth-century Alpinist, is my excuse. He was tolerant of those "who set the established code of sightseers at defiance - to go to America without seeing the falls of Niagara, or to go to Rome without seeing St. Peter's, or to Jerusalem without seeing the Holy Sepulchre." Although I have not seen all the Alps, I want to write about them and I invoke Henry James' excuse for writing of Venice: "I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with hi theme". By Max Knight
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Knight, Max was born on June 8, 1909 in Vienna, Austria. Arrived in United States, 1941, naturalized, 1943. Son of Bernhard and Margarethe Hoffer Kuhnel.
Doctor of Philosophy in Law, University Vienna, 1933. Postgrad, University California-Berkeley, 1950.
Literary editor newspapers Vienna, London, Shanghai, 1938—1940. Deputy executive secretary RADIR Project, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1948—1949. Principal editor University California Press Berkeley, 1950—1976, emeritus, since 1976.
Director editorial workshop University California-Berkeley, since 1967. Co-owner Pacific Features, 1958.
(This is a personal book, not a guide to the Alps. It is a...)
(San Francisco: Friends of the Earth Publisher. 160 pp, ma...)
Married Charlotte Mary Lowes Knight, August 11, 1942. Children: Anthony C., Martin L.