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Limits of the known
Title:
Limits of the known
Author:
Roberts, David, 1943-2021 author.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Physical Description:
xxi, 306 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Summary:
A celebrated mountaineer and author searches for meaning in great adventures and explorations, past and present. --Publisher.

Roberts, a celebrated mountaineer, has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes on earth. Reflecting on humanity's-- and his own-- relationship to extreme risk, he examines the motivations of explorers who have pushed the limits of the human body on their perilous journeys. Then he considers our future in a world we will have mapped and trodden from end to end. -- adapted from jacket.
Language:
English
Contents:
Farthest north -- Blank on the map -- Prehistoric 5.10 -- The quest for the other -- First descent -- First contact -- The undiscovered Earth -- The future of adventure.
ISBN:
9780393609868
Format :
Book