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Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mr Peter Steele
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:304
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 157
Category/GenreTrue Stories of Heroism, Endurance and Survival
Geographical discovery and exploration
Climbing and mountaineering
ISBN/Barcode 9780094794801
ClassificationsDewey:796.522092
Audience
General

Publishing Details
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint Constable and Robinson
Publication Date 29 March 1999
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Peter Steele brings a self-effacing narrator to life by talking to family and friends and by looking thr ough hundreds of very personal letters written over five dec ades. '

Author Biography

Peter Steele, mountaineer, skier and Yukon doctor, followed his ebullient hero around Europe and into the still remote barren lands that he put on the map. Author of the Medical Handbook for Walkers and Climbers, he also wrote Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond, a life of the mountain explorer, which won the 1998 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.