The Ascent Of Rum Doodle
Vintage Voyages
$29.55
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
6 August 2019
Summary
VINTAGE VOYAGES - A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, discover this laugh-out-loud cult favourite.
Led by the reliably under-insightful Binder, a team of seven British men including Dr Prone (constantly ill); Jungle the route finder (constantly lost), Constant the diplomat (constantly arguing) and 3,000 Yogistani porters, set out to conquer the highest peak in the Himalayas.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784875299 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784875295 |
| Author: | W.E. Bowman |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 6 August 2019 |
| Weight: | 148g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Vintage Voyages |
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Wonderful. Rum Doodle does for mountaineering what Three Men in a Boat did for Thames-going or Catch-22 did for the Second World War. It is simply an account of the leader of an expedition up Rum Doodle, a 40,000 and a half foot peak in the Himalayas, in the same way that Scoop is simply a tale about newsgathering in Africa. The tone is nearer to Pooter than anyone else I can think of, but the flavour is all W.E. Bowman’s own. * Sunday Times *I just love this book. Everything about it is nearly perfect… hugely enjoyable and brilliantly sustained. * Bill Bryson *Exceedingly funny… as if the hero of Diary of a Nobody had, in a mood of abandon, turned to mountaineering. * Dublin Magazine *it is an epic. It is Homeric. It is inspiring. It is very, very funny… Read it and be moved. * Books of the Month *Amazing…Laugh-out-loud literature – Tim Key * Guardian *
About The Author
W.E. Bowman
W. E. Bowman (1912-1985) was a civil engineer who spent his free time hill-walking, painting and writing (unpublished) books on the Theory of Relativity. He was married with two children.
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