Excerpt from The Other Side of the Hill: And Home Again For over twenty years I lived among the moun tains. Their rugged summits saluted me every morning. Mountains are usually employed in literature as emblems of immutability. My own experience is quite otherwise. To me they were positively kaleidoscopic. I never saw a moun tain look just the same two days running; whilst the fantastic changes that overtook them as I viewed them from different points of the com pass were a perennial source of wonder and admiration. It was always worth while seeing the peak from the other side, even if that Side were windswept, bleak, and bare. We might prefer the shelter of our own side; but, when we returned, the view of the mountain from the dining-room Window was always more satisfying because of our ability to supplement the scene from our newly acquired knowledge of the land beyond the ranges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.