VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
W. E. Bowman (1912-1985) was a civil engineer who spent his free time hill-walking, painting and writing (unpublished) books on the Theory of Relativity.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.
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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