Addicted to adventure : between rocks and cold places
Shepton, Bob2015
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Place reservation for Addicted to adventure : between rocks and cold placesBob Shepton is an ordained minister in the Church of England in his 80s, but spends most of his time sailing into the Arctic and making first ascents of inaccessible mountains. Opening with the disastrous fire that destroyed his yacht whilst he was ice-bound in Greenland, this book travels back to his childhood growing up on his family's rubber plantation 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 school children, is dismasted off the Falklands, trapped in ice, and climbs mountains accessible only from iceberg-strewn water and with only sketchy maps available.
Main title:
Addicted to adventure : between rocks and cold places / Bob Shepton.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Adlard Coles Nautical, 2015.
Collation:
xx, 204 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2014.
ISBN:
9781472905871 (pbk)
Dewey class:
910.92910.92Travel writers/SHEP (910.92)TRAVEL WRITERS/SHEP (910.92)
Local class:
B/SHEP
Language:
English
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BRN:
247494
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