
Climbing Essays
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Content
- Intro
- Introduction by Robert Macfarlane
- Streets, Outcrops, Space: Autobiographical Sketches
- Front step
- Grandparents
- Blacking Factory
- My Dad at Birk Crag
- A34
- Stravaiging
- Rock
- Cultural
- Cancer
- Friendship
- Love
- Synthesis
- Part One: Climbs
- Young Climber
- 1: A Note on Commitment
- 2: Hubris
- 3: Right Unconquerable: A Gritstone Paean
- Closing on Darkness
- 4: Street Illegal
- 5: Adventuring on the Lleyn
- 6: 'In dreams begin responsibility.'
- Peripatetic
- 7: Small Climbs in Germany
- 8: Day Trip to Dalkey
- 9: Bogles & Bog-trots
- 10: The Cow's Mouth
- Wave Lengths
- 11: Visions and Virians
- 12: Three Cornish Climbs
- 13: Fools Rush In
- 14: The Gate of Horn
- 15: In Search of Times Past
- 16: Welsh Slate: Rock & the Art of Abstraction (with Will Perrin)
- 17: Fictive Heroes
- 18: A True and Authentic History and Description of Fachwen
- 19: Small Personal Difficulties
- 20: (Beinn a'Chaoruinn and) The Vision of Glory
- Part Two: The Climbers
- 1: Peter Crew - the way you climb is the way you are
- 2: John Hoyland - The Missing Dates
- 3: Batso & the American Dream
- 4: The Ice Climbers
- 5: My Last Climb with George Homer
- 6: Exploring Eric Shipton
- 7: Big Cat - John Redhead
- 8: The Essential Jack Longland
- 9: ' ... like a family of Ghosts': Recollections of Peter Biven
- 10: Prankster, Maniac, Hero, Saint and Fool: Al Harris
- 11: Johnnie Lees - Space Below His Feet ...
- 12: Stevie Haston - Wild at Heart
- 13: The Character, Life and times of HW Tilman
- 14: The Only Genuine Joe: A Tribute
- 15: Cathy Powell: A Character Rewritten
- 16:Will
- Part Three: On Climbing
- 1: Eating Bear Meat
- 2: Trains, Cafés, Conversations
- 3: Contumely of the Conquistadors
- 4: After the Funeral
- 5: In Praise of Competence
- 6: Grade Drift
- 7: On Three Historical Images
- 8: What's good is bad, what's bad is good ...
- 9: Why Do Trekkies Like to Visit Base Camps?
- 10: A Valediction
- 11: Confidence Moves
- 12: Fear is the Spur
- 13: ... the Lost and Perfect Hold
- 14: That Old Thing About Grace
- 15: 'Denn bleiben ist nirgends.'
- 16: Fictions
- 17: Rained Up, Rained Off
- 18: Working on the Night Moves
- 19: No More Heroes Any More
- 20: Ways of Seeing
- 21: Kaleidoscope of the Senses
- 22: For Arnold Pines (broadcast version)
- 23: October
- 24: The Way & The Outcrop
- Footnotes
- Author Biography
- Also by Jim Perrin
- Copyright Page
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