Limits of the Known - Hardcover

Roberts, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393609863 ISBN 13: 9780393609868

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2018

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Washington PostLimits of the KnownIn the wake of his diagnosis with throat cancer, Roberts seeks answers with sharp new urgency. He explores his own lifelong commitment to adventuring, as well as the cultural contributions of explorers throughout history: What specific forms of courage and commitment did it take for Fridtjof Nansen to survive an eighteen-month journey from a record "farthest north" with no supplies and a single rifle during his polar expedition of 1893–96? What compelled Eric Shipton to return, five times, to the ridges of Mt. Everest, plotting the mountain’s most treacherous territory years before Hillary and Tenzing’s famous ascent? What drove Bill Stone to dive 3,000 feet underground into North America’s deepest cave?What motivates the explorers we most admire, who are willing to embark on perilous journeys and push the limits of the human body? And what is the future of adventure in a world we have mapped and trodden from end to end?

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David Roberts (1943–2021) was the author of thirty books on mountaineering, exploration, and anthropology. His books have won the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature and the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Book Competition.

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• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393609863
• ISBN 13: 9780393609868
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
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