Coronation Everest
$32.67
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2005
Summary
Exquisite, powerful … I can think of no better way of commemorating British exploration’s culminating triumph.’ Simon Winchester
This classic account offers a breathtakingly intimate evocation of the most famous of all mountaineering exploits - and of perhaps the last great old-fashioned Fleet Street scoop.
‘It was Morris who broke the news that a British-led expedition had conquered Mount Everest the day before the Queen’s coronation in 1953 … Allied to physical courage in ge…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571219445 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0571219446 |
| Author: | Jan Morris |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2005 |
| Weight: | 145g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 127mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
‘Morris scooped the world’. Guardian
Jan Morris
Jan Morris was born in Somerset in 1926 and received her B.A. in 1951 and her M.A. in 1961, both from Christ Church, Oxford. Dubbed the ‘Flaubert of the jet age’ by Alistair Cooke, and ‘perhaps the best descriptive writer of our time’ by Rebecca West, Jan Morris has written studies of Venice, Oxford, Manhattan, Sydney, Hong Kong, Spain and Wales. She is the author of the Pax Brittanica trilogy about the British Empire, two autobiographical books, six volumes of collected travel essays and a novel.
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