Unwin Hyman, London, 1988, 1st edition. 201 pp, 70 b/w photographs, and index. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fine.
This volume is largely composed of columns, reviews and news items that Nunn wrote for Mountain Magazine and other periodicals. Our custmers may find Nunn's reviews of Mountaineering books particularly useful.
The author, Paul Nunn, has climbed for forty years - from rock climbing in Britain, through an Alpine apprenticeship to a decade of Himalayan mountaineering, and he is also widely known for his climbing journalism. This thoughtful, fascinating and sometimes funny book is a selection of Nunn's writing about climbing.
He has been rock climbing in Britain, through an alpine apprenticeship to a decade of Himalayan mountaineering. Some of the contents are: The Peak, Gwynedd, The Lake District, Scotland, The Alps, A Global Scale, Mirrors on Men and Events, Film illusion, Back to the Hills and Around Everest, plus an Index.
