Richards Climbing Days

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ISBN: 978-0-571-31194-1
Verlag: Faber & Faber
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

In Climbing Days, Dan Richards is on the trail of his great-great-aunt, Dorothy Pilley, a prominent and pioneering mountaineer of the early twentieth century. For years, Dorothy and her husband, I. A. Richards, remained mysterious to Dan, but the chance discovery of her 1935 memoir, Climbing Days, leads him on a journey. Perhaps, in the mountains, he can meet them halfway? Following in the pair's footholds, Dan begins to travel and climb across Europe, using Dorothy's book as a guide. Learning the ropes in Wales and Scotland, scrambling in the Lake District, scaling summits in Spain and Switzerland, he closes in on the serrate pinnacle of Ivor and Dorothy's climbing lives, the mighty Dent Blanche in the high Alps of Valais. What emerges is a beautiful portrait of a trailblazing woman, up to now lost to history - but also a book about that eternal question: why do people climb mountains?

Dan Richards is a writer and broadcaster. His first book Holloway was a collaboration with Robert Macfarlane ### Stanley Donwood in 2012. Since then he has written four further books, The Beechwood Airship Interviews, Climbing Days, Outpost, and Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark. His BBC Radio 4 series, Only After Dark, was broadcast to acclaim in 2022. Dan has written for the New York Times, Guardian, Economist, Esquire and Monocle. He lives in Edinburgh. @Dan_Zep 'The height of crafted eloquence.' - SAMANTHA HARVEY 'Dan Richards' writing spans great gulfs of emotion and experience. He is witty and profound and his curiosity and empathy know no bounds. - PHILIP HOARE 'Dan Richards is a wonderful storyteller, wise, wry and open-hearted, the perfect travelling companion.' - MAX PORTER 'Vivid, funny and moving - a wonderful stylist' - SARAH PERRY

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richards, Dan