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The Villain: The Life of Don Whillans-Jim Perrin, 9780091794385
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780091794385
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Villain
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories, Sports
- Item Weight
- 651g
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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Don Whillans has an iconic significance for generations of climbers. His epoch-making first ascent of Annapurna's South Face, achieved with Dougal Haston in 1970, remains one of the most impressive climbs ever made, a standard to which all modern Himalayan climbers aspire -but behind this and all his other formidable achievements lies a tough, recalcitrant reality- the character of the man himself. At twenty, Whillans was 5 foot 4 inches tall, a working-class lad 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, a scrapper and a savage-tongued wit on the other - the Villain of the title, who was turned down for a Queen's Birthday Honour because of a violent fracas with several policemen. His world was miles away from the conventional public-school environment of the upper-class climbers who had for so long dominated the sport, and this itself led to tensions throughout his life. Whillans carried within himself a sense of personal invincibility, forceful, direct and uncompromising. It gave him sporting superstar status - the flawed he
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Cornerstone
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9780091794385
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Book Title
The Villain
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Biographies & True Stories, Sports
Number of Pages
368 Pages
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651g
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United Kingdom
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