Mountain
A Life on the Rocks
$45.31
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
13 December 2016
Summary
Steve Backshall’s love affair with the mountains has taken him to some of the world’s wildest places, environments that have the power to make a human being feel very small, very vulnerable and very alive.
MOUNTAIN: A LIFE OF THE ROCKS is an account of his most breathtaking expeditions: heading into the ‘Death Zone’ on the roof of the world in the Himalayas, and picking a precarious route up hundreds of metres of rock in the Arctic and Alps. There are expeditions of explorati…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781409163923 |
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| ISBN-10: | 140916392X |
| Author: | Steve Backshall |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 13 December 2016 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 28mm |
About The Author
Steve Backshall
Born in 1973, Steve Backshall was brought up on a smallholding in the home counties of England. He studied English at university before going on to study biology, eventually becoming adventurer in residence for the National Geographic. He travels the world as the presenter of BBC TV’s ‘Deadly’ series, and he has also been an integral part of the ‘Lost Land’ expedition programmes. His young adult fiction ‘The Falcon Chronicles’ is also published by Orion.
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