Isbn: 9780393356595 - limits of the known (38 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A celebrated mountaineer and author searches for meaning in great adventures and explorations, past and present.

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Paperback. Zustand: New. In a book that is part memoir and part history, David Roberts looks back at his personal relationship to extreme risk and tries to make sense of why so many have committed their lives to the desperate pursuit of adventure.In the wake of his diagnosis with throat cancer, Roberts seeks the answer with sharp new urgency. He explores his own lifelong commitment to adventuring, as well as the cultural contributions of explorers throughout history. He looks at what it meant in 1911 for Amundsen to reach the South Pole or in 1953 for Hillary and Norgay to summit the highest point on earth. And he asks what the future of adventure is in a world we have mapped and trodden all the way to the most remote corners of the wilderness. …

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A celebrated mountaineer and author searches for meaning in great adventures and explorations, past and present. David Roberts, "veteran mountain climber and chronicler of adventures" (Washington Post), has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes on earth. In Limits of the Known, he reflects on humanitysand his ownrelationship to extreme risk. Part memoir and part history, this book tries to make sense of why so many have committed their lives to the desperate pursuit of adventure. In 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 189396? What compelled Eric Shipton to return, five times, to the ridges of Mt. Everest, plotting the mountains most treacherous territory years before Hillary and Tenzings famous ascent? What drove Bill Stone to dive 3,000 feet underground into North Americas 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? A celebrated mountaineer and author searches for meaning in great adventures and explorations, past and present. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. In a book that is part memoir and part history, David Roberts looks back at his personal relationship to extreme risk and tries to make sense of why so many have committed their lives to the desperate pursuit of adventure.In the wake of his diagnosis with throat cancer, Roberts seeks the answer with sharp new urgency. He explores his own lifelong commitment to adventuring, as well as the cultural contributions of explorers throughout history. He looks at what it meant in 1911 for Amundsen to reach the South Pole or in 1953 for Hillary and Norgay to summit the highest point on earth. And he asks what the future of adventure is in a world we have mapped and trodden all the way to the most remote corners of the wilderness. …

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 306 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. 2019. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . .

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 306 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

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