Touching the Void

Touching the Void
Author: Joe Simpson
Publisher: Direct Authors
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2012-12-12
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0957519303


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The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and camaraderie are explored in this electronic edition of the mountaineering classic, with never before seen colour photographs taken during the trip itself.


Touching the Void
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: Joe Simpson
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-12 - Publisher: Direct Authors

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The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the
Dressed Up for a Riot
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Michael Idov
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-20 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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A memoir of revolution, reaction, and Russian men’s fashion In this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years
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Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Durga Chew-Bose
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-11 - Publisher: FSG Originals

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On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer's Diary with the words "too much and not the mood." She was describing how tired she was of correc
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Erving Goffman
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-29 - Publisher: Anchor

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A notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves. This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to othe
Electrified Sheep
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Alex Boese
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-01 - Publisher: Boxtree

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Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the fi