Coronation Everest

Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571266029
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coronation Everest written by Jan Morris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Exquisite, powerful . . . I can think of no better way of commemorating British exploration's culminating triumph.' Simon Winchester? Coronation Everest offers a breathtakingly intimate evocation of the most famous of all mountaineering exploits - and of perhaps the last great old-fashioned Fleet Street scoop. 'It was Morris who broke the news that a British-led expedition had conquered Mount Everest the day before the Queen's coronation in 1953 . . . Allied to physical courage in getting down the mountain and a dogged resourcefulness in getting the news home, Morris scooped the world and was launched on one of the most remarkable literary careers in the second half of the twentieth century.' Guardian Jan Morris's collection of travel writing and reportage spans over five decades and includes such titles as Venice, Coronation Everest, Hong Kong, Spain, Manhattan '45, A Writer's World and the Pax Britannica Trilogy. Hav, her novel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Author : Stuart Ward
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526119625
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British culture and the end of empire written by Stuart Ward and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture. The sheer range of subjects discussed, from the satire boom of the 1960s to the worlds of sport and the arts, demonstrates how profoundly decolonisation was absorbed into the popular consciousness. Offers an extremely novel and provocative interpretation of post-war British cultural history, and opens up a whole new field of enquiry in the history of decolonisation.

Author : Jan Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coronation Everest. [An Account of how the News of the Ascent of Everest Reached London on the Eve of Queen Elizabeth's Coronation, June 1st, 1953. With Plates, Including a Portrait, and Maps.]. written by Jan Morris and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393326482
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World written by Jan Morris and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-03-22 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtakingly vivid guide to our greatest cosmopolitan cities and culturesfrom Manhattan to Venice and from Baghdad to Barbados, this book assembles 50years of Morris's finest travel writing.

Author : Gillian Fenwick
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570037474
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveling Genius written by Gillian Fenwick and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traveling Genius surveys the half century of work by British writer Jan Morris, including more than fifty books and thousands of essays and reviews, from 1950s America via Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Sydney, and Hong Kong to her home in Wales. Internationally known as a travel writer, she has also distinguished herself across many other genres by writing history, autobiographies and biographies, and literary fiction and essays." "Existing accounts of Morris's work are largely confined to reviews and magazine essays, and often concentrate on James Morris's sex change and transformation into Jan Morris. This is of course significant to the writing, and some critics detect a change of tone and style afterward, but a detailed analysis of how her writing works has not yet been undertaken. In Traveling Genius, Gillian Fenwick fills that gap in the scholarship with the first study to explore the depths of Morris's complete body of work, utilizing close readings and archival research."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Dave Costello
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493009168
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Off Everest written by Dave Costello and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perched impossibly on a ridge overlooking a 10,000-foot drop into Tibet, Sano Babu Sunuwar and Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa wait. Heel to toe, connected at the waist by a pair of carabineers that’s connected to nothing else, they stare down the North Face of Mount Everest, a red and white nylon tandem paragliding wing fluttering behind them. They know that jumping off the top of the world marks only the beginning of a longer, more audacious journey. And they know that the two-mile ride down Everest will be the easiest part. If the jump doesn’t kill them. In April 2011 the two unsponsored Nepalis set out on an unprecedented expedition to climb Everest, paraglide from its peak, and paddle nearly 400 miles to the ocean. Little problems wouldn’t stop them. Like the fact that Babu had no technical climbing experience. And that Lakpa had never been kayaking—or swimming. But after summiting, surviving their flight off the world’s tallest mountain, and being arrested, robbed, and nearly drowned—repeatedly—the two friends discovered their adventure had only just begun.

Author : Elizabeth Mazzolini
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817318933
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Everest Effect written by Elizabeth Mazzolini and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Everest Effect is an accessibly written cultural history of how nature, technology, and culture have worked together to turn Mount Everest into a powerful and ubiquitous physical measure of Western values.

Author : Maurice Isserman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300164203
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fallen Giants written by Maurice Isserman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in 50 years, the authors offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions.

Author : J. Edwards
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230294766
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Travel Writing written by J. Edwards and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of a vibrant and highly popular but also volatile genre that has seen many changes in recent years.

Author : Rowland Smith
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889206074
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonizing the Commonwealth written by Rowland Smith and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and resistance in Iran; cowboy songs; fetal alcohol syndrome; the conquest of Everest; women settlers in Natal. What do these topics have in common? The study of what used to be called Commonwealth literature, or the new literatures, has by now come to be known as postcolonial study. This collection of essays investigates the status of postcolonial studies today. The contributors come from three generations: the pioneers who introduced study of the “new” literatures into university English departments, the next generation who refined and developed many of the theoretical positions embodied in postcolonial study, and the next, much younger, generation, who use the established practices of the discipline to investigate the application of this theory in a wide range of cultural contexts. Although the authors write from such different starting points, a surprisingly similar set of images, phrases and topics of concern emerge in their essays. They return constantly to issues of difference and similarity, the re-examination of categories that often appear to be too rigidly defined in current postcolonial practices, and to concepts of sharing: experience, ideas of home, and even the use of land. Postcolonizing the Commonwealth: Studies in Literature and Culture offers an intriguing analysis of the state of postcolonial criticism today and of the application of postcolonial methods to a variety of texts and historical events. It is an invaluable contribution to the current debate in both literary and cultural studies.