Dimensions
202 x 272 x 28mm
Remarkable Feats Of Exploration and Adventure 1950 - 1999
In this collection of exhilarating and page-turning adventures, Chris Bonington looks at what has inspired men and women to accomplish remarkable feats. He has travelled extensively to talk to the adventurers whose stories are retold in this book, writing from a very real personal understanding and feeling for the springs of adventure.
He examines the motivation of Thesiger, as compared with Chichester, explores the degree of risk accepted by Bonatti on the Dru and Knox-Johnston in the Southern Ocean. There is peril by bandit, crocodile and cataract in two contrasting expeditions down the Blue Nile, the discipline and rigours of Atlantic and Pacific rowing, cave diving dramas at Keld Head, and the anticipation of man's first footprint on the moon. In the section on Mountains, Chris Bonington traces the evolution of post-war climbing.
'Quest for Adventure' is a personal and remarkable celebration of exploration and adventure by a man who has done much to keep its spirit alive today.
