Quest for adventure : remarkable feats of exploration and adventure from 1950 to 2000

著者

• Bonington, Chris

書誌事項

Quest for adventure : remarkable feats of exploration and adventure from 1950 to 2000

Chris Bonington

Cassell, c2000

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 344-345) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

In this collection of stories, Chris Bonington looks at the adventurous impulse which has driven men and women to achieve the impossible in the face of Earth's elements - crossing its oceans, deserts and poles; canoeing its rivers; climbing its mountains; and descending into its caves.

目次

• Kon tiki, Thor Heyerdahl
• rowing the Atlantic, John Ridgway and Chay Blyth
• the man who raced himself, Francis Chichester
• golden globe, Knox-Johnston
• ice bird, David Lewis
• the empty quarter, Thesiger
• the Blue Nile, John Blashford-Snell and Mike Jones
• Annapurna the first 8000, Maurice Herzog
• the challenge of Everset, Hillary
• the Bonatti Pillar - Walter Bonatti at the Petit Dru
• Annapurna, South Face, Chris Bonington
• broad peak, Hermann Buhl
• Diamir - Reinhold Messner on Nanga Parbat
• the crossing of Antarctica, Fuchs and Hillary
• solo to the pole, Naomi Uemura
• first on the Moon, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins
• dead man's handshake - Yeadon and Statham caving
• hot air - around the world non-stop in a balloon and by microlight - Branson, Rutan, Fossett, Elson, Piccard.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA53389804
• ISBN:
  • 030435418X
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: 352 p.
• 大きさ: 28 cm