Wanda Rutkiewicz - A Caravan of Dreams
Language: English
Published by Carreg Ltd, 2000
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Seller: Deeside Books, Ballater, United KingdomDeeside Books
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Large hardback, size 28 x23cm, in red cloth boards, gilt titles, in Very Good condition, dustwrapper also in Very Good condition, in a clear protective archival wrapper. First edition, pp192, colour photographs. Wanda Rutkiewicz was the finest woman alpinist in the world, a charismatic person and a stronger, more accomplished climber than many men. She climbed with twenty expeditions spread over 22 years. But on 12 May 1992 she vanished without trace at 8300 metres while attempting to add Kanchenjunga to the eight 8000-metre peaks she had already climbed. Even now, so long after the event, her friends find it hard to believe that she will not be returning from that last climb. This book does not answer all the questions about Wanda. She never answered them herself and I was determined not to fictionalise. She always hoped that people who wrote about her would write what she said, not what they thought. Even when I am recording events that we shared, I have tried to distinguish unequivocally between her perspective and my own. -- taken from the foreword by Gertrude Reinisch.…
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- Title
- Wanda Rutkiewicz - A Caravan of Dreams
- Author
- Reinisch, Gertrude
- Publisher
- Carreg Ltd
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0953863107
- ISBN 13
- 9780953863105
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Mountaineering, Climbing and Hill-Walking
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From the Back Cover
'I always took anything that might limit my independence as a personal attack, to be resisted rather than accommodated in any way.' PATHS TO FREEDOM 'I was totally possessed by climbing from that very first moment. The experience was like some inner explosion. I knew it would somehow mark the rest of my life.'
'In the Pamirs we seemed to be just stomping around in the snow for several weeks. Admittedly I got my first 7000-metre peak out of it, but when I got home I swore never to join another expedition.' 8000-METRE PEAKS PATHS TO ADVENTURE 'The consciousness that I dared not make the slightest mistake fascinated me. It was exciting to be totally responsible for myself. That's how I learned to cope with difficult situations alone. I sometimes wondered what I thought I was doing. But then, there's no such thing as adventure without risk.'
'I'd always been a rather anxious person. I'm forever scared that something terrible might happen to me.' THE CARAVAN OF DREAMS 'Living your dreams, instead of just dreaming them, is not without risk.'
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Deeside Books has been trading since 1997 and is a traditional bookshop located in the centre of the tourist village of Ballater on Royal Deeside in Aberdeenshire. We are located on the main A93 road from Aberdeen to Braemar, just eight miles from Balmoral Castle. Ballater is also within the scenic Cairngorms National Park. We have a stock of approximately 10,000 out of print, antiquarian and remainder books within the shop with specialisations in Scottish, Field Sports, Military, Climbing & Polar and Transport. In addition, we have a good selection of new books with an emphasis on new Scottish titles. Also we will have several thousand books listed on ABE and on our own website, www.deesidebooks.com .We offer a no obligation booksearch on our own website. …
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