Author: Anthony Gibbs
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
High Endeavor
Author: Anthony Gibbs
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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High Endeavours
Author: Miles Clark
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN: 9781550540581
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Miles Clarke's moving and exhilarating biography establishes Miles and Beryl Smeeton as the most accomplished traveling and adventuring couple of the 20th century. It is both a love story and an adventure story beyond compare.
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN: 9781550540581
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Miles Clarke's moving and exhilarating biography establishes Miles and Beryl Smeeton as the most accomplished traveling and adventuring couple of the 20th century. It is both a love story and an adventure story beyond compare.
Unjustifiable Risk?
Author: Simon Thompson
Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN: 1849656991
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
To the impartial observer Britain does not appear to have any mountains. Yet the British invented the sport of mountain climbing and for two periods in history British climbers led the world in the pursuit of this beautiful and dangerous obsession. Unjustifiable Risk is the story of the social, economic and cultural conditions that gave rise to the sport, and the achievements and motives of the scientists and poets, parsons and anarchists, villains and judges, ascetics and drunks that have shaped its development over the past two hundred years. The history of climbing inevitably reflects the wider changes that have occurred in British society, including class, gender, nationalism and war, but the sport has also contributed to changing social attitudes to nature and beauty, heroism and death. Over the years, increasing wealth, leisure and mobility have gradually transformed climbing from an activity undertaken by an eccentric and privileged minority into a sub-division of the leisure and tourist industry, while competition, improved technology and information, and increasing specialisation have helped to create climbs of unimaginable difficulty at the leading edge of the sport. But while much has changed, even more has remained the same. Today's climbers would be instantly recognisable to their Victorian predecessors, with their desire to escape from the crowded complexity of urban society and willingness to take "unjustifiable" risk in pursuit of beauty, adventure and self-fulfilment. Unjustifiable Risk was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker prize in 2011.
Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN: 1849656991
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
To the impartial observer Britain does not appear to have any mountains. Yet the British invented the sport of mountain climbing and for two periods in history British climbers led the world in the pursuit of this beautiful and dangerous obsession. Unjustifiable Risk is the story of the social, economic and cultural conditions that gave rise to the sport, and the achievements and motives of the scientists and poets, parsons and anarchists, villains and judges, ascetics and drunks that have shaped its development over the past two hundred years. The history of climbing inevitably reflects the wider changes that have occurred in British society, including class, gender, nationalism and war, but the sport has also contributed to changing social attitudes to nature and beauty, heroism and death. Over the years, increasing wealth, leisure and mobility have gradually transformed climbing from an activity undertaken by an eccentric and privileged minority into a sub-division of the leisure and tourist industry, while competition, improved technology and information, and increasing specialisation have helped to create climbs of unimaginable difficulty at the leading edge of the sport. But while much has changed, even more has remained the same. Today's climbers would be instantly recognisable to their Victorian predecessors, with their desire to escape from the crowded complexity of urban society and willingness to take "unjustifiable" risk in pursuit of beauty, adventure and self-fulfilment. Unjustifiable Risk was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker prize in 2011.
High Endeavours
Author: Jimmy Cruickshank
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 184195831X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a friend and inspiration to many climbers worldwide, including fellow Scot Dougal Haston, High Endeavours is a fitting and long-overdue tribute to one of Britain's most revered mountaineers, and one of the finest books ever written on the allure of the mountainside.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 184195831X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Robin Smith was one of the most legendary climbers ever to have tackled a mountain. This definitive biography draws on contributions from people who knew this charismatic and complex young man, as well as diary extracts from Smith himself. As Smith was a friend and inspiration to many climbers worldwide, including fellow Scot Dougal Haston, High Endeavours is a fitting and long-overdue tribute to one of Britain's most revered mountaineers, and one of the finest books ever written on the allure of the mountainside.
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
Author: James Anthony Froude
Publisher:
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle.
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle.
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Report
Author: Western Australia. Dept. of Mines
Publisher:
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Hymens Præludia ... being the third part of ... Cleopatra, rendred into English by R. Loveday
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A Book of Quotations
Author: W. Gurney Benham
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846047627
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1914.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846047627
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1914.
Expository Notes, with Practical Observations, on the New Testament ... By the Rev. William Burkitt ... To this Edition Will be Added, the Life of the Author, Etc. [With Plates, Including a Portrait.]
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1410
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1410
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