- Published: 6 August 2019
- ISBN: 9781784875299
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $26.99
The Ascent Of Rum Doodle
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- Published: 6 August 2019
- ISBN: 9781784875299
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $26.99
Wonderful. Rum Doodle does for mountaineering what Three Men in a Boat did for Thames-going or Catch-22 did for the Second World War. It is simply an account of the leader of an expedition up Rum Doodle, a 40,000 and a half foot peak in the Himalayas, in the same way that Scoop is simply a tale about newsgathering in Africa. The tone is nearer to Pooter than anyone else I can think of, but the flavour is all W.E. Bowman's own.
Sunday Times
I just love this book. Everything about it is nearly perfect... hugely enjoyable and brilliantly sustained.
Bill Bryson
Exceedingly funny... as if the hero of Diary of a Nobody had, in a mood of abandon, turned to mountaineering.
Dublin Magazine
it is an epic. It is Homeric. It is inspiring. It is very, very funny... Read it and be moved.
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