Eric Shipton (1907–1977)
Autore di The Six Mountain-Travel Books
Sull'Autore
Eric Shipton (1907-1977) wrote six other mountain-travel and exploration books which Mountaineers Books publishes in an omnibus edition.
Opere di Eric Shipton
Opere correlate
Fifty Great Adventures that Thrilled the World — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1907-08-01
- Data di morte
- 1977-03-28
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Ceylon
- Luogo di residenza
- England, UK
Kenya
Kashgar, Turkestan, China
Persia
Hungary - Istruzione
- Pyt House School, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Attività lavorative
- mountaineer
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1957)
Utenti
Recensioni
The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition di Eric Shipton
Short but intriguing account of an expedition designed to scout the routes for the conquest of Mt. Everest; in fact, the results of this expedition in 1951 led directly to the conquest some 18 months later. Indeed, Edmund Hillary was a member of this expedition before his fame in the conquest. Many interesting observations of life in Nepal ca. 1951. There's also a (too brief!) segment, with one photo, on a possible yeti footprint.
½
An essential piece of the Shipton library. A very gently written autobiography. No revelations here, he skims over or omits the ugly bits, and relishes the high points of his life.
Again, 6 essential and somewhat hard to find books collected in one cover: Shipton is an icon, his writing is delightful, although it took quite some time for me to slay this beast. Recommend you take a break half way and read something else to break it up!
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 15
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 327
- Popolarità
- #72,482
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 31
- Lingue
- 1