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The Ascent Of Rum Doodle
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VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind

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W. E. Bowman (1912-1985) was a civil engineer who spent his free time hill-walking, painting and writing (unpublished) books on the Theory of Relativity. He was married with two children.

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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.
*Books of the Month*

Amazing...Laugh-out-loud literature
*Guardian*

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