The Magician's Glass - Character and Fate: Eight Essays on Climbing and the Mountain Life

The Magician's Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is 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.

About the author

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.

Summary

The Magician’s Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is 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.

Product details

• Authors: Ed Douglas
• Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781911342489
• ISBN: 978-1-911342-48-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 233 mm x 156 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 324 g
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies