TOUCHING THE VOID : The Harrowing First Person Account of One Man's Miraculous Survival

Joe Simpson; (Chris Bonington, Foreword)

ISBN 10: 0060916540 / ISBN 13: 9780060916541

Verlag: Perrenial/Harper & Row, New York, NY, 1990

Beschreibung

Text/BRAND NEW, softcover w/a whisper of shelfwear to upper back corner tip. Memoir of English mountaineer Joe Simpson's (1960 -) successful but disastrous 1985 ascent of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. The book is dedicated to his climbing partner Simon Yates (1963 -) who did not survive the descent from the summit. This epic account of both triumph & suffering, friendship & loss of, won the 1988 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and was adapted to film. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 009410

Bibliografische Details

Titel: TOUCHING THE VOID : The Harrowing First ...

Verlag: Perrenial/Harper & Row, New York, NY

Erscheinungsdatum: 1990

Einband: Soft cover

Illustrator: Joe Simpson; Simon Yates; & Richard Hawking (Photographers)

Zustand: New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: None as Issued

Auflage: First Edition, First Printing

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