Geoffrey Winthrop Young. Poet, Mountaineer, Educator.

Hankinson Alan

ISBN 10: 034057609X / ISBN 13: 9780340576090

Edité par Hodder & Stoughton, 1995

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365pp, original black cloth, VG in VG dw, signed dedication on the title page by Alan Hankinson. A Boardman Tasker Award Winner. This book gives the first public account of Geoffrey Winthrop Young's life. Compiled with the help of Young's voluminous diaries and letters. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Geoffrey Winthrop Young. Poet, Mountaineer, Educator.
• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 034057609X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780340576090
• Reliure: hardcover
• Édition: 1995 First Edition, First Printing.
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur

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Synopsis

A climbers' guru par excellence of the interwar years, Winthrop Young was also an educationalist who helped Kurt Hahn found the "Outward Bound" movement, and was closely involved with German attempts to oust Hitler. He was a patriot and a dedicated European, a homosexual and a devoted family man, and lived his life among politicians and leaders like Theodore Roosevelt, Churchill, Baden-Powell and the Kaiser. This biography, which uses freely Winthrop Young's unpublished diaries and letters, attempts to unravel the complexities of this many-sided man.