The Last of His Kind: The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America's Boldest Mountaineer

The Last of His Kind: The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America's Boldest Mountaineer

William Morrow & Company

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UPC:
9780061560958
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
6/15/2010
Release Date:
6/15/2010
Author:
Roberts, David
Language:
English: Published; English: Original Language; English
Edition:
Reprint
Pages:
368
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Stunning and stirring. Boston Globe In The Last of His Kind, renowned adventure writer David Roberts gives readers a spellbinding history of mountain climbing in the twentieth century as told through the biography of Brad Washburn, legendary mountaineering pioneer and photographer. Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air, has praised David Roberts, saying, Nobody alive writes better about mountaineeringand nowhere is that truth more evident than in this breathtaking account of the life and exploits of Americas greatest mountain climber.

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