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Long Walk with Lord Conway
Simon Thompson
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Description for Long Walk with Lord Conway
Hardcover. A re-exploration of the historic journey made by the first man to walk the Alps from 'end to end' Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrationsstratiosn, maps. BIC Classification: 1DFHA; 3JH; BGH; WSZC; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 142 x 28. Weight in Grams: 632.
In 1894, Martin Conway became the first man to walk the Alps 'from end to end' when he completed a 1,000-mile journey from the Col de Tende in Italy to the summit of the Ankogel in Austria. On a midsummer's morning, nearly 120 years later, Simon Thompson followed in his footsteps, setting out to explore both the mountains and the man. A charming rogue who led a 'fantastically eventful' life, according to The Times, Conway was a climber and pioneering explorer of the Himalaya, Spitsbergen, the Andes and Patagonia; a serial pursuer of American heiresses; an historian, collector and ... Read more
In 1894, Martin Conway became the first man to walk the Alps 'from end to end' when he completed a 1,000-mile journey from the Col de Tende in Italy to the summit of the Ankogel in Austria. On a midsummer's morning, nearly 120 years later, Simon Thompson followed in his footsteps, setting out to explore both the mountains and the man. A charming rogue who led a 'fantastically eventful' life, according to The Times, Conway was a climber and pioneering explorer of the Himalaya, Spitsbergen, the Andes and Patagonia; a serial pursuer of American heiresses; an historian, collector and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Signal Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908493804
SKU
V9781908493804
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Ref
99-5
About Simon Thompson
Simon Thompson is the author of Unjustifiable Risk? The Story of British Climbing, which was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize in Britain and the Banff Prize for Mountain Literature in Canada.
Reviews for Long Walk with Lord Conway
'A Long Walk with Lord Conway, an absorbing amalgam of travel, biography and history, will help to rehabilitate one of the more 'colourful late Victorian personalities'.'
Times Literary Supplement
Times Literary Supplement