Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond
By (Author) Mr Peter Steele
Little, Brown Book Group
Little, Brown
29th March 1999
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Geographical discovery and exploration
True stories of heroism, endurance and survival
796.522092
Winner of Boardman Tasker Memorial Award 1998
Physical Properties
Paperback
304
Width 157mm, Height 234mm, Spine 17mm
460g
Description
Peter Steele brings a self-effacing narrator to life by talking to family and friends and by looking thr ough hundreds of very personal letters written over five dec ades. '
Author Bio
Peter Steele, mountaineer, skier and Yukon doctor, followed his ebullient hero around Europe and into the still remote barren lands that he put on the map. Author of the Medical Handbook for Walkers and Climbers, he also wrote Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond, a life of the mountain explorer, which won the 1998 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.
