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Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Steele
Creator: Sir Edmund Hillary
Publisher: Constable
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1584300
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
ISBN: 0094783004
EAN: 9780094783003
ASIN: 0094783004
Publication Date: March 30, 1998
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Condition: Publisher: Constable Date of Publication: 1998 Binding: Hardcover,ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. Ships within 24 hours. pp. Description: Hardcover,ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. Ships within 24 hours. pp.
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A disappointing biography of a key mountaineer December 13, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This biography of Eric Shipton, one of the key figures of world mountaineering in the 20th century, an enigmatic and fascinating personality, was eagerly awaited. Peter Steele enjoyed privileged access to many key sources of intimate information about Shipton. It is therefore all the more disappointing and frustrating that his book, while providing a useful 'life story' and some intriguing snippets of information on Shipton (including confirming that some of his finest mountain writing owed its quality in part to others), seldom yields much insight into its subject beyond what can be drawn - more enjoyably - from Shipton's own books. In fact Peter Steele's writing is lamentably inferior to Shipton's. And sometimes it seems Steele is keener to tell us about Steele than he is about Shipton. In sum, it feels like a squandered opportunity. The Edmund Hillary "content" is one cursory introductory letter.
This book did win the Boardman Tasker award in 1998, but in my view the importance and the beguilingly sympathetic personality of its subject matter may have distorted the Award panel's judgement, to allow them to overlook the book's substantial inherent shortcomings.
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