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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Possibly the best Adventure writer,
By Bob Davis (Christchurch New Zealand) - See all my reviews
This review is from: H. W. Tilman: Eight Sailing/Mountain-Exploration Books (Hardcover)
Bill Tilman was an unbelievable man and his writings provide an unforgetable image of a bygone age. I love his dry sense of humour and matter of fact descriptions of perilous situations. His real life exploits are absolutely unbelievable. From being wounded twice in the first world war, to a coffee planter in Kenya, to cycling across africa in the 1930s, climbing Kilimanjaro, Mt Kenya and the Ruwenzori, the first ascent of Nanda Devi in 1936, reaching 27,200 on Everest without oxygen 1938 (many with Eric Shipton), fighting behind enemy lines in Italy and Albania in the second world war, finally sailing to such remote regions including Greenland and Spitsbergen. His descriptions as detailed in this compilation proudly sit on view on my bookselves. The currently available biography 'The Last Hero' unfortunately is disappointing compared to J.Anderson's 'High Mountains and Cold Seas'.
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Fine auto-biography of the 20th century's premier explorer,
By bob.comlay@mcmail.com (Havant, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: H. W. Tilman: Eight Sailing/Mountain-Exploration Books (Hardcover)
There have been several attempts to produce a biography of Bill Tilman. As one who travelled with him, his own words - republished here intact - are the best possible biog.
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This review is from: H. W. Tilman: Eight Sailing/Mountain-Exploration Books (Hardcover)
Tilman wrote these books over a number of year, mostly between expeditions to some of the more remote places in the world. They read as if they were written yesterday - Tilman comes across as both laconic and erudite, but also with a lot of dry humor. This is a great collection of his books and as one who enjoys both sailing and travelling (and reading about climbing rather than doing it) I found these books particularly enjoyable and very well-written.
The expeditions themselves were to places like Patagonia, Kerguelen Island, Greenland and Heard Island. None of them easy places to get to, even now. That Tilman managed to sail there in an old wooden Bristol Pilot Cutter was an outstanding achievement in itself. That he managed to climb as well seems to me the icing on the cake so to speak. Loved these books, can't wait to pick up the Climbing books and read them next.
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scattered floes, higher gluttony, twin staysails, branch fjord, ice towards the north, charging engine, more floes, meridian sight, topmast forestay, fjord entrance, bowsprit shrouds, mud berth, accidental gybe, staysail booms, main fjord, flax canvas, next fjord, snap sight, wind dead aft, big floe, meteorological log, spare mainsail, sealskin trousers, pilot cutter, club jetty Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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scattered floes, higher gluttony, twin staysails, branch fjord, ice towards the north, charging engine, more floes, meridian sight, topmast forestay, fjord entrance, bowsprit shrouds, mud berth, accidental gybe, staysail booms, main fjord, flax canvas, next fjord, snap sight, wind dead aft, big floe, meteorological log, spare mainsail, sealskin trousers, pilot cutter, club jetty Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Cruise of the Cachalot by Frank T. Bullen on page 239, page 610, and page 843
- The Seven Mountain Travel Books: Snow on The Equator / The Ascent of Nanda Devi / When Men and Mountains Meet / Everest 1938 / Two Mountains and a River / China to Chitral / Nepal Himalaya by H W Tilman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Nautical Almanac by Nautical Almanac Office on page 24, and page 574
- A History of the Vikings by Gwyn Jones on page 696, and page 717
- Letters from High Latitudes by Lord Dufferin on page 400, and page 439
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- Wayward Sailor : In Search of the Real Tristan Jones by Anthony Dalton in Back Matter
- Rounding The Horn: Being The Story Of Williwaws And Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries And Naked Natives--a Deck's-eye View Of Cape Horn by Dallas Murphy in Back Matter
- After the Storm : True Stories of Disaster and Recovery at Sea by John Rousmaniere in Back Matter
- The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English by Jenny Stringer on page 669
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