Quest for Adventure

by Chris Bonington (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1983

  $4.79

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $4.88

  A round up of all the innovative post-war achievements that have pushed back the boundaries of the adventurous - on the world's oceans, across deserts, down rivers, up mountains, over the poles, up in balloons, out into space and down into caves. The author talked to most of the adventurous in this book to appraise their motivations, from Wilfred Thesiger crossing the empty quarter and Kon Tiki crossing the Pacific, to the first men on the moon, and taking in Blyth, Ridgway, Knox-Johnston, Chichester, Hunt Hillary, Bonatti, Messmer, Wally Herbert. It was the cave diving in upper Wharfedale which frightened him most and represented the ultimate unknowable. Chris Bonington is the author of Montaineer , The Everest Years; Everest, Unclimbed Ridge and Kongur, China's Elusive Summit .

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.45

  In this collection of stories, Chris Bonington looks at the adventurous impulse which has driven men and women to achieve the impossible in the face of Earth's elements - crossing its oceans, deserts and poles; canoeing its rivers; climbing its mountains; and descending into its caves.