Buy this book on-line BLESSED**, BRIAN - with additional material by John-Paul Davidson: : THE TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN - BRIAN BLESSED ON EVEREST.**LONDON.BLOOMSBURY,1991. ISBN 0747510466.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - an unread copy? Publisher's bright,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate b/w map illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-217pp [paginated] includes 7 chapters, an Epilogue,24pp contemporary colour photographs in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp58/9,pp90/1, and pp154/5 respectively; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a contents list/table,and a dedication.
From the age of seven,when he read about George Mallory's 1924 ascent of Everest in his Hotspur comic,Brian Blessed dreamed of recreating Mallory's historic climb.At the age of fifty-three,accompanied by a camera crew,he realised that dream.
Wearing the same type of clothing as Mallory, and without oxygen,Blessed followed in his footsteps.
Published to coincide with the release of the film 'Galahad of Everest' (then 1991),in which Blessed stars,'The Turquoise Mountain' tells the whole story,from his spellbound childhood fascination with the idea of climbing Everest, through its development into a passionate obsession,to its finally becoming a reality. Blessed holds us enchanted through it all: from the arduous training he underwent and his preparatory meetings with Captain John Noel - the last survivor of the 1924 expedition - and mountaineering veterans Reinhold Messner and Chris Bonington; through the journey to the Himalayas and his encounters with the Dalai Lama and the people of Bhutan; to the awesome ascent itself,full of danger,tragedy,fear,sickness, privation - and,ultimately,tranquillity.
This is really a book about people's dreams.We all have our own personal Everest to climb: for Brian Blessed it was the actual mountain,his desire to come to terms with it and to understand both himself and his hero.For anyone who cherishes an ambition to conquer anything seemingly insurmountable,'The Turquoise Mountain' is a charm,an encouragement and an inspiration.
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