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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Jim Perrin |
ISBN: | 9781903238479 1903238471 |
OCLC Number: | 316732137 |
Awards: | Runner-up for Wales Book of the Year: English Language Award 2007 |
Description: | 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: by Robert Macfarlane (author of Guardian First Book Award-winner Mountains of the Mind); 1: Streets, Outcrops, Space: A Personal Journey; 2: The Climbs: Street Illegal; The Gate of Horn; Right Unconquerable; Fictive Heroes; Visions and Virians; Three Cornish Climbs; Cathy Powell; Fools Rush In; Fantan B; Small Climbs in Germany; Hubris; The True & Authentick History of Fachwen; The Great Crack; Small Local Difficulties; Day Trip to Dalkey; A Note on Commitment; Lizards & Rampant; Hippos; Handy Pandy; Bogles & Bog-trots; In Dreams Begins Responsibility; 3: The Climbers: Paul Williams; Joe Brown; Will Perrin; Stevie Haston; Al Harris; H.W.Tilman; Batso & the American Dream; John Hoyland; Pat LittleJohn; Robin Hodgkin; Peter Biven; Dave Cook; Johnny Lees; My Last Climb with George Homer; John Syrett; The Ice-climbers; Eric Shipton; Jack Longland; John Redhead; 4: Ascent: Eating Bear Meat; Trains, Cafes, Conversations; The Way the Holds Run; Fear is the Spur; Contumely of the Conquistadors; Grace; The Lost and Perfect Hold; Grade Drift; The Night Moves; The Way You Climb is the Way You Are; Fictions; Person/Product/Practise; Silk of the Body; No Success Like Failure; Base Camps; The Way & the Outcrop; Very Severe; In Praise of Competence; Image/Imagine; Working on the Rope Moves; Ours; A Valediction (Forbidding Mourning); Rain; Charming Cracks; The Overgrown; Confidence; Moves; Version and Verse; "Denn bleiben 1st nirgends"; Kaleidoscope of the Senses; For Arnold Pines. |
Responsibility: | Jim Perrin. |
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