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Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'Magnificent ... this book is unlikely to be surpassed' TelegraphThis is the first major history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains... -
The Alpine Journal: 1999 by Ed Douglas 9780948153594
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £15.42The Alpine Journal is the world''s principal mountaineering yearbook and essential reading for all who love the mountains, in particular those who climb in the Alps and Greater Ranges. It includes... -
The Alpine Journal: 2000 Ed Douglas 9780948153624
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £15.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948153624Author Ed DouglasFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint -
Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas 9780393882469
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88For centuries, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adventurers, and mountaineers seeking to test... -
The Alpine Journal: 2001 by Ed Douglas 9780948153662
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £15.42A mountaineering yearbook, including articles, expedition reports, book reviews, obituaries, memoirs, geography and history. The Alpine Journal is the world's principal mountaineering year-book and... -
Statement: The Ben Moon Story by Ed Douglas 9781906148980
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.80'Ever since I first set foot on rock at the tender age of seven years, climbing has been the most important thing in my life. In fact I would go so far as to say it is my reason for living and as... -
Kinder Scout: The people's mountain by Ed Douglas 9781911342502
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.26'An exceptional book.' Robert Macfarlane, author of The Lost Words, Landmarks and Mountains of the Mind'We made Kinder Scout, not just metaphorically, or metaphysically, not just with our stories and... -
The Alpine Journal 2018: Volume 122 by Ed Douglas 9780956930972
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £21.20The bright future of British Mountaineering is under the spotlight in this edition of the Alpine Journal with contributions from the latest generation of leading alpinists - Ben Silvestre, Uisdean... -
Alpine Journal 2003 Volume 108 by Ed Douglas 9780948153723
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £15.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948153723Author Ed DouglasFormat HardbackImprint -
The Alpine Journal 2016: Volume 120 by Ed Douglas 9780956930958
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £21.50The Alpine Journal is the oldest mountaineering periodical in the world, created as a record of mountain exploration and culture, and its 153rd publication celebrates some of the outstanding ascents... -
Chomolungma Sings the Blues: Travels Round Everest by Ed Douglas 9781841194004
Booksplease Price: £18.18Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Upland: The Strange History and Vital Future of Britain’s Mountains by Ed Douglas 9781847927538
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.24Britain's mountains have inspired poets, painters and scientists and they are a cornerstone of our cultural narrative and our national identity. Yet they are also at the forefront of agricultural and... -
The Magician's Glass: Character and Fate: Eight Essays on Climbing and the Mountain Life by Ed Douglas
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.57Shortlisted for the 2017 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. 'How much risk is worth taking for so beautiful a prize?' The Magician's Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a... -
Place, Race, and Identity Formation: Autobiographical Intersections in a Curriculum Theorist's Daily Life by Ed Douglas McKnight 9780367342494
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24In this work of curriculum theory, Ed Douglas McKnight addresses and explores the intersections between place (with specific discussion of Kincheloe's and Pinar's conceptualization of place and... -
Schooling, the Puritan Imperative, and the Molding of an American National Identity: Education's "Errand Into the Wilderness" by Ed Douglas McKnight 9781138881181
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £54.14Present-day America is perceived by many as immersed in a moral crisis, with national identity fractured and uncertainty and anxiety about the future. Public schools in this country are, historically... -
Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World by John Keay 9781408891162
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is as epic as the mountains and peoples he describes' Dan Snow 'Adds the human element to the hard rock. And... -
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99The gripping adventure that invented the mystery of Shangri-La. ... -
The Alpine Journal 2015: Volume 119 by Susan Jensen 9780956930941
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £21.50This, the 152nd publication of the Alpine Journal, takes you on a selection of significant first ascents of 2014, from Antarctica to Greenland, Europe to High Asia; on adventures in rock climbing,... -
The The Alpine Journal: 2007: v. 112 by Stephen Goodwin 9780948153884
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £21.20This is the mountaineering yearbook, including feature articles, expedition reports, book reviews, obituaries, arts, history and science.Richly illustrated, the "Alpine Journal" is the world's... -
The Villain: The Life of Don Whillans by Jim Perrin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £7.96Don Whillans has an iconic significance for generations of climbers. His epoch-making first ascent of Annapurna's South Face, achieved with Dougal Haston in 1970, remains one of the most impressive... -
High Risk: Climbing to extinction by Brian Hall 9781839812156
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.02The golden age of Himalayan mountaineering, from the mid-1970s to the 1980s, brought forth a generation of radical young climbers. With tiny budgets and high ambitions they pioneered fast and light,... -
The Villain: The Life of Don Whillans by Jim Perrin 9780099416722 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.52Don Whillans has an iconic significance for generations of climbers. His epoch-making first ascent of Annapurna's South Face, achieved with Dougal Haston in 1970, remains one of the most impressive... -
Psychovertical by Andy Kirkpatrick
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81WINNER OF THE BOARDMAN TASKER PRIZE 2008Metro magazine recently wrote that Andy Kirkpatrick makes Ray Mears look like Paris Hilton. Words like boldness, adventure and risk were surely coined... -
Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds Paul Gilchrist 9781526179166
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.47A hundred years after the tragic 1924 British Everest expedition, this collection explores the wider social and cultural history of the mountain. Mount Everest looms large in the popular imagination... -
Calculated Risk: Adventure and Romance in Scotland and the Alps by Dougal Haston 9781898573661
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.27When John Dunlop gives Judy Scott a lift to Glencoe on his motorbike, both are surprised when a relationship develops. But for John all passions must be relegated to the demands of the big climb. The... -
Ron Fawcett - Rock Athlete: The Story of a Climbing Legend by Ron Fawcett 9781906148300
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Winner of the 2010 Boardman Tasker Prize. Ron Fawcett is a natural-born climber. In 1969, while still at school in his native Yorkshire, he tied into a climbing rope for the first time and was... -
Full of Myself by Johnny Dawes 9780957030800
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.05Praise for the man and book from Leo Houlding..."Johnny Dawes is the enigmatic front man of an eclectic band of British climbers who in the mid 1980's redefined the standards of difficulty and danger... -
Waymaking: An anthology of women's adventure writing, poetry and art by Melissa Harrison 9781910240755
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.24Winner: Mountain Literature (Non Fiction) The Jon Whyte Award, Banff Mountain Book Competition 2019Waymaking is an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places,... -
Conquistadors of the Useless: From the Alps to Annapurna by Lionel Terray
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.01'I have given my whole life to the mountains. Born at the foot of the Alps, I have been a ski champion, a professional guide, an amateur of the greatest climbs in the Alps and a member of eight... -
Lake District Mountain Landscape by Alastair Lee 9781910240182
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.78Lake District Mountain Landscape is a spectacular photographic perspective on the Lake District from award-winning mountain photographer and filmmaker Alastair Lee. More than five years in the... -
Waymaking: An anthology of women's adventure writing, poetry and art by Melissa Harrison 9781910240755 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £3.48Winner: Mountain Literature (Non Fiction) The Jon Whyte Award, Banff Mountain Book Competition 2019Waymaking is an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places,... -
Deep Play: Climbing the world's most dangerous routes by Paul Pritchard 9781906148584
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05WINNER: Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature 1997Paul Pritchard's Deep Play is a unique, stylish and timeless commentary reflecting the pressures and rewards of climbing some of the world's...