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Language: English
Published by Harpercollins, 1988
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- Title
- Touching the Void
- Author
- Simpson, Joe
- Publisher
- Harpercollins
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060160276
- ISBN 13
- 9780060160272
The author relates his nearly fatal adventures mountaineering in the Andes, adventures that included a fall into a crevice, broken limbs, and return to safety
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Review
"A brilliant, vivid, gripping, heart-stopping account of their terrifying adventure... Superbly written" (Sunday Express)
"One of the absolute classics of mountaineering...a document of psychological, even philosophical witness of the rarest compulsion'" (George Steiner Sunday Times)
"On every level it is an outstanding literary achievement" (Independent)
"A quite extraordinary and moving book...Touching the Void touches the Great Questions in an understated yet utterly compelling way" (Guardian)
"A truly astonishing account of suffering and fortitude...the narrative acquires an irresistible force, carrying all before it" (Sunday Times)
"One of the absolute classics of mountaineering...a document of psychological, even philosophical witness of the rarest compulsion'" (George Steiner Sunday Times)
"On every level it is an outstanding literary achievement" (Independent)
"A quite extraordinary and moving book...Touching the Void touches the Great Questions in an understated yet utterly compelling way" (Guardian)
"A truly astonishing account of suffering and fortitude...the narrative acquires an irresistible force, carrying all before it" (Sunday Times)
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