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A Line Above the Sky - On Mountains and Motherhood (Paperback)
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A Line Above the Sky - On Mountains and Motherhood (Paperback)
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List price R265
Loot Price R212
Discovery Miles 2 120
You Save R53 (20%)
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Bookseller Editor's Choice Winner of the Boardman Tasker Award for
Mountain Literature 'A wonderful book - exhilarating and taut,
fearless in its explorations of wildness, risk, motherhood, and the
inner and outer worlds of the writer' Jon McGregor 'This book is
beautiful' Emma Jane Unsworth 'Climbing gives you the illusion of
being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being
able to stay one move ahead of death' As a child, Helen Mort was
drawn to the thrill and risk of climbing, the tension between human
and rockface, and the climber's need to be hyperaware of the
sensory world - to feel the texture of rock under their fingers,
how their crampons bite into the ice, the subtle shifts in weather.
But when she becomes a mother for the first time, she finds herself
re-examining this most elemental of disciplines, and the way that
we view women who put themselves in danger. Written by one of
Britain's most talented young writers, A Line Above the Sky melds
memoir and nature writing to create what will surely become a
classic of the genre; it asks why humans are compelled to climb and
poses other, deeper questions about self, motherhood and freedom.
It is a love letter to losing oneself in physicality, whether that
in the risk of climbing a granite wall solo, without ropes, or the
intensity of bringing a child into the world.
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