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Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond (Paperback)

by Sir Edmund Hillary (Foreword), Peter Steele (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Constable and Robinson (29 Mar 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0094794804
  • ISBN-13: 978-0094794801
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 839,067 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Peter Steele brings a self-effacing narrator to life by talking to family and friends and by looking thr ough hundreds of very personal letters written over five dec ades. '

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3.0 out of 5 stars A disappointing biography of a key mountaineer, 13 Dec 2001
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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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