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THE VILLAIN: A PORTRAIT OF DON WHILLANS By James Perrin **BRAND NEW**

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ISBN-10
0898869862
Publication Name
Mountaineers Books
Type
Paperback
ISBN
9780898869866

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Publisher
Mountaineers Books, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0898869862
ISBN-13
9780898869866
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46585049

Product Key Features

Book Title
Villain : a Portrait of Don Whillans
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Mountaineering, Sports
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Author
James Perrin
Format
Perfect

Dimensions

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1 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
5.8 in

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All readers will be amused and intrigued by the dozens of fascinating yarns that Whillans left in his wake, the thrilling adventures he had, and the remarkable cast of characters that populated his life. And it's the drama of that life that makes this well-wrought book a fine, and in many respects invaluable, contribution to the storehouse of climbing literature.Perrin is at his best in capturing the boisterous and insular climbing scene in pre-Thatcher Britain-when few climbers could afford proper gear or a car-and in his unflinching analysis of Whillans' decline. Perrin's intimate knowledge of Whillans' era and its key figures yields countless enlightening moments in The Villain , painting a portrait of a scene that will not be replicated in prosperous modern Britain.A superb account of an iconic British mountaineer. . . The Villain is a welcome addition to the story of Don Whillans as well as the history of mountaineering, and deserves a prominent place on that bookshelf.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
796.522/092
Synopsis
Brawling, hard-drinking, hellman--Don Whillans' reputation was as wide as the Yosemite big walls and as high as the Himalayan peaks he risked his life to scale., * Whillans has an iconic significance for generations of climbers * His epochmaking first ascent of Annapurna's South Face set a standard to which modern Himalayan climbers aspire * Whillans reputation for toughness led to complete strangers punching him in bars, just to see how he'd take it At age 20, Whillans was 5ft. 4in. tall, a blue collar guy with the build of a miniature Atlas. Within a year of entering the climbing world in 1950 he had acquired parallel reputations of great skill and daring on the one hand, and as a hell-raiser with a savage wit on the other-the Villain of the title, who was denied a Knighthood because of a violent brawl with several policemen. His world was miles away from the upper-crust environment of the well-heeled climbers who had for so long dominated the sport, and this itself led to tensions throughout his life. Whillans exuded an aura of invincibility-forceful, direct, and uncompromising. And in the climbing world, his image was that of a superstar, with the flawed heroism of a Muhammad Ali. In his own circle, his image was the working class hero on the rock-face, laconic and bellicose, ready to go to war with the elements or with any human who crossed his path on a bad day. Unlike many other climbers of his day, Whillans was a regular guy. He wasn't physically impressive and, in his later years, he let himself go seriously to seed. (Elizabeth Hawley didn't believe so fat a man could really be a climber.) He was a very competitive climber, and yet he was also willing to risk his life helping others. While he was, in many ways, the archetypal British climber, he also did important climbs in Europe, the Himalaya, South America and Yosemite. Whillans wasn't an easy man to get to know, but The Villain takes its readers into his world and explores his character as no other book has done., Mountain climber Don Whillans' reputation was as wide as the Yosemite big walls and as high as the Himalayan peaks he risked his life to scale. His epoch-making first ascent of Annapurna's South Face set a standard to which modern Himalayan climbers aspire. "The Villain" tells the exciting story of this brawling, hard-drinking mountaineer.

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