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Addicted to Adventure

Between Rocks and Cold Places

Pocket
Engelsk
Addicted to Adventure
Addicted to Adventure
  • Forfatter: Revd Bob Shepton
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 224
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9781472905871
  • Utgivelsesår: 2015
  • Bidragsyter: Shepton, Revd Bob
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Bob Shepton is an ordained minister in the Church of England in his late 70s, but spends most of his time sailing into the Arctic and making first ascents of inaccessible mountains. No tea parties for this vicar.Opening with the disastrous fire that destroyed his yacht whilst he was ice-bound in Greenland, the book travels back to his childhood growing up on the rubber plantation his father managed in Malaysia, moving back to England after his father was shot by the Japanese during the war, boarding school, the Royal Marines, and the church. We then follow Bob as he sails around the world with a group of schoolboys, is dismasted off the Falklands, trapped in ice, and climbs mountains accessible only from iceberg-strewn water and with only sketchy maps available. Bob Shepton, winner of the 2013 Yachtsman of the Year Award, is an old-school adventurer, and this compelling book is in the spirit of sailing mountaineer HW Tilman, explorer Ranulph Fiennes, climber Chris Bonington and yachtsm