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The Undiscovered Country (Hardcover)

by Phil Bartlett (Author)

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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Ernest Press (Oct 1993)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0948153245
ISBN-13: 978-0948153242
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.6 x 2.4 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 820,983 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Climber & Hillwalker

In The Undiscovered Country, Phil Bartlett analyses some of the complex motivations for risking it all in the mountains and examines their role as inspiration.

Greg Tough, Fell and Rock Journal

There have been many attempts to pin down exactly why people are motivated to climb but at last here is a book which goes right to the heart of the problem.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unashamedly intellectual, but a fascinating subject!, 28 Jan 1999

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I am the author of this book, so I shan't sing it's praises - you won't believe me! But it was runner up in the Boardman-Tasker prize in 1993, and I discussed it on radio 4's "Midweek" programme, on television on "Newsnight" and "The Great Outdoors" and in the national as well as the specialist Press. The Austrian mountaineer and writer Kurt Diemberger called it "outstanding", Climber magazine "a magnificent achievement". And so on.

So if your mind needs something more meaty that the latest guidebook or Everest sensationalism, try it. The subtitle of the book is "The reason we climb", and that's what it's about - the psychology of why people put themselves into danger and discomfort, and what they get out of it. If you've read any of the celebrated names of mountaineering you'll find them discussed here - but you don't need to be a signed up member of the mountaineering mafia to enjoy it! I hope you do; and if you want to contact me, you can do so by e-mail at the address below.

Good reading!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mountains and men, 5 Nov 2009

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I enjoyed this book immensely. The psychology of mountaineering fascinates me, as does the wild terrain where men meet themselves face to face. An intelligent, insightful book which has surely already become a classic for practising and armchair mountaineers alike. A book you can return to time and again, just like the mountains it discusses.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The heart of the matter, 22 Mar 2006

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Climbing mountains appeals on a thousand different levels. There is an immediate, visceral, physical, tactile thrill; but it goes much deeper than that. Here at last – for the first time since Wilfrid Noyce published his seminal 'Springs of Adventure' – is a book which really gets to the root of why people climb. Bartlett is unashamedly cerebral. He is also engagingly discursive, roaming far and wide over myriad sources – philosphical, aesthetic and literary – but always coming back to his own roamings among the world's high mountains, speaking from heartfelt personal experience. Forget all those clichés about 'adrenaline junkies' and 'summit fever'. Forget all those turgid disaster soap operas. Mountains are far too compelling for that kind of formulaic treatment. If you really want to know what it is all about, read this.

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