Jim Wickwire
Autore di Addicted to Danger: A Memoir About Affirming Life in the Face of Death
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1940-06-08
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
Utenti
Recensioni
1 
Kindlegohome | 2 altre recensioni | Jul 9, 2015 |
Kindlegohome | 2 altre recensioni | Jul 9, 2015 | 
Great book from a mountaineer I have been following locally for a long while. Not the edge of the chair reading, but enjoyable.
The book provides enough action and mountaineering exploits to keep you engaged. I am a mountaineer and ice climber and read quite a few of these types of books. One thing the book did was paint a very negative profile of the author as being self serving and selfish. For someone who did as much travelling as he did I suppose a personality like that is part of the profile. It just seemed to be a big part of the book as though he was desperately trying to explain his point of view to the reader or most likely his wife and family.… (altro)
1 nhoule | 2 altre recensioni | Aug 11, 2007 |
nhoule | 2 altre recensioni | Aug 11, 2007 | Potrebbero anche piacerti
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- Opere
- 2
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 160
- Popolarità
- #131,702
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 6
- Lingue
- 1
Good book since it doesn't only show what he climbed (and even that in a highly detached, even unimaginative style lacking captivating details) but why he needed to climb.
Other biographical sections would better have been left out!