The Magician's Glass by Ed Douglas

The Magician's Glass by Ed Douglas

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The Magician's Glass by Ed Douglas

The Magicians Glassby award-winning writer Ed Douglasis a collection of eight essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing. He writes about failure, controversy, the impact of mountaineering on local communities, the link between art and alpinism, and why people climb mountains.
Ed Douglas has been climbing for over thirty-five years and has been a writer and editor for the last thirty. He launched the magazine On The Edge while at university in Manchester, and has published eight books about mountains and their people. His books include biographies of Tenzing Norgay, rock-climbing visionary Ben Moon and the late British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves. His ghostwritten autobiography of Ron Fawcett, Rock Athlete, won the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature in 2010. Three of the essays in The Magician’s Glass were either shortlisted for or won at the Banff Mountain Book Festival in Canada. Douglas’s journalistic work most often appears in The Observer and The Guardian. He is the current editor of the Alpine Journal and lives in Sheffield with his wife Kate. They have two grown-up children.
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ISBN 13 9781911342489
ISBN 10 1911342487
Title The Magician's Glass
Author Ed Douglas
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vertebrate Publishing Ltd
Year published 2017-07-31
Number of pages 192
Prizes Short-listed for Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. 2017
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