Upland

• Utgivningsdatum: 2027-04-01
• Mått: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
• Vikt: 281 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 400
• Förlag: Vintage Publishing
• ISBN: 9781529967418

• Europas historia
• Geografi
• Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik
• Naturhistoriska böcker

Ed Douglas is a prize-winning writer about mountains whose books include Himalaya: A Human History, which was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, Kinder Scout: The People's Mountain and a biography of Tenzing Norgay. He won the Boardman Tasker Award for mountain literature in 2010. He has been a climber for forty-five years and was for a decade the editor of mountaineering’s oldest publication, the Alpine Journal. He lives in Sheffield.

Glorious . . . a beguiling history . . . Ed Douglas's achievement in this excellent book is to return a proper sense of colour and even carnival to Britain's high places . . The truth is that mountains have shaped much of our island story . . . One delight of his capacious . . . narrative is the room it leaves for delightful cameos by remarkable individuals

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