The Ascent of Rum Doodle

Informationen zum Autor W. E. Bowman (1912-1985) was a civil engineer who spent his free time hill-walking, painting and writing (unpublished) books on the Theory of Relativity. He was married with two children. Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. He is the author of eighteen books and holds the record of having the most bestsellers of any author on the Sunday Times bestseller list in the last fifty years. A Short History of Nearly Everything , first published in 2003, spent 106 weeks in the chart, won both the Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize and is the biggest-selling popular science book of the twenty-first century. Bill Bryson is a former Chancellor of Durham University and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in England. Klappentext W. E. Bowman was a civil engineer who spent his free time hill-walking, painting and writing (unpublished) books on the Theory of Relativity. He was married with two children and died in 1985. Zusammenfassung Led by the reliably under-insightful Binder, a team of seven British men -- including Dr Prone (constantly ill), Jungle the route finder (constantly lost), Constant the diplomat (constantly arguing) -- and 3,000 Yogistani porters sets out to conquer the highest peak in the Himalayas.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: W E Bowman, W. E. Bowman, William E. Bowman
• Con la collaborazione di: Bill Bryson (Introduzione)
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9780099530381
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953038-1
• Pagine: 192
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Serie: Vintage Classics; Vintage; Vintage; Vintage Classics
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Nepal, FICTION / Satire, Travel writing, Humorous fiction