TOUCHING THE VOID : The Harrowing First Person Account of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson; (Chris Bonington, Foreword)
- New
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- New/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0060916540
- ISBN 13
- 9780060916541
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Perrenial/Harper & Row, 1990. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Joe Simpson; Simon Yates; & Richard Hawking (Photographers). Text/BRAND NEW, softcover w/a whisper of shelfwear to upper back corner tip. Memoir of English mountaineer Joe Simpson's (1960 -) successful but disastrous 1985 ascent of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. The book is dedicated to his climbing partner Simon Yates (1963 -) who did not survive the descent from the summit. This epic account of both triumph & suffering,, friendship & loss of, won the 1988 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and was adapted to film.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009410
- Title
- TOUCHING THE VOID : The Harrowing First Person Account of One Man's Miraculous Survival
- Author
- Joe Simpson; (Chris Bonington, Foreword)
- Illustrator
- Joe Simpson; Simon Yates; & Richard Hawking (Photographers)
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0060916540
- ISBN 13
- 9780060916541
- Publisher
- Perrenial/Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Mountaineering/Peru/Andes/Autobiography/Memoir
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Expeditions;
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- First Edition
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