Mountains of the Great Blue Dream | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Leonard Reid
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 198
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Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0826319238
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.522092
EAN: 9780826319234
ASIN: 0826319238
Publication Date: August 1, 1998
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Robert Leonard Reid, a well-known writer on alpinism, delights in the satori-inducing dangers of mountaineering. "Once on vertical rock in desert country," he writes in Mountains of the Great Blue Dream, "I reached for a crack, inserted my fingers, stepped up, and stared into the steely eyes of a rattlesnake coiled two feet from my hand." And that's just a start, for this fine collection of essays recounts many other death-defying adventures endured in nights spent pinned to rock walls in howling winds, days battling ice storms and uncooperative ropes. But this is not just a book of macho accomplishment on the high peaks: Reid writes affectionately of the mountain landscapes among which he has walked and climbed, lending his book a rare and welcome poetry. --Gregory McNamee
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"People who know wilderness?real wilderness?know there is a dark side to the moon. This is a book about inner mountaineering, a perspective only an older climber can give."?Roderick Nash, author of Wilderness and the American Mind
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