H. W. Tilman: Eight Sailing/Mountain-Exploration Books

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Summary: Possibly the best Adventure writer
Review: Bill Tilman was an unbelievable man and his writings provide an unforgetable image of a bygone age. I love his dry sense of humour and matter of fact descriptions of perilous situations. His real life exploits are absolutely unbelievable. From being wounded twice in the first world war, to a coffee planter in Kenya, to cycling across africa in the 1930s, climbing Kilimanjaro, Mt Kenya and the Ruwenzori, the first ascent of Nanda Devi in 1936, reaching 27,200 on Everest without oxygen 1938 (many with Eric Shipton), fighting behind enemy lines in Italy and Albania in the second world war, finally sailing to such remote regions including Greenland and Spitsbergen. His descriptions as detailed in this compilation proudly sit on view on my bookselves. The currently available biography 'The Last Hero' unfortunately is disappointing compared to J.Anderson's 'High Mountains and Cold Seas'.

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Summary: Eight Sailing/Mountain-Exploration Books
Review: By reding Tilman's books one can travel staying comfortably home, his descriptions are so precise and complete that one can really imagine to have travelled by his side. But his accounts makes also rise the desire of adventure and of being as much as possible outdoors and in contact with nature. I would also like to ask everyone who has read one book or more by Tilman to contact me, because I am writing my degree thesis on him and I am trying to collect reviews, opinions or every other kind of comment on his books. Thank you to everyone who will answer me. My name is Brandalise Nadia.

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Summary: A rousing good read
Review: I read this after I got "The Perfect Storm" and got interested in sailing. Tilman is well-known as being one of the few explorers who were good writers. I wish his Asian travels books were still in print.

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Summary: A rousing good read
Review: I read this after I got "The Perfect Storm" and got interested in sailing. Tilman is well-known as being one of the few explorers who were good writers. I wish his Asian travels books were still in print.

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Summary: Fine auto-biography of the 20th century's premier explorer
Review: There have been several attempts to produce a biography of Bill Tilman. As one who travelled with him, his own words - republished here intact - are the best possible biog.