Limits of the Known - Couverture rigide

Roberts, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393609863 ISBN 13 : 9780393609868

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2018

Synopsis

"This encapsulating narrative pinpoints human spirit and the limitations of the human body in the world of thrilling adventure." Adventure Travel

In a book that is part memoir and part history, David Roberts looks back at his personal relationship to extreme risk and tries to make sense of why so many have committed their lives to the desperate pursuit of adventure.

In the wake of his diagnosis with throat cancer, Roberts seeks the answer with sharp new urgency. He explores his own lifelong commitment to adventuring, as well as the cultural contributions of explorers throughout history. He looks at what it meant in 1911 for Amundsen to reach the South Pole or in 1953 for Hillary and Norgay to summit the highest point on earth. And he asks what the future of adventure is in a world we have mapped and trodden all the way to the most remote corners of the wilderness.

Short-Listed - Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature, 2018

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A veteran mountain climber, David Roberts is the award-winning author of Alone on the Ice, The Lost World of the Old Ones, and True Summit, along with twenty-five other books about mountaineering, exploration, adventure, and Western history and anthropology. He lives in Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393609863
• ISBN 13: 9780393609868
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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