First edition, first printing with the author's idiosyncratic signature to the title page. The book has a little discolouration to the top edge and the d /w. is very nearly fine.

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Title: Storms Of Silence
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0224042165
ISBN 13: 9780224042161
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A moving account of the author’s maverick life as a mountaineer. Behind the tales of adventure is a brooding disquiet as he struggles to come to terms with the grinding poverty and violence lurking so close to the surface of life.

Joe Simpson recalls the severe snowstorm that put an end to an attempt with four others on Gangchempo, and the infection that forced him to abandon the climb on Cho Oyu in Tibet. During that expedition he has a disturbing encounter with a party of political refugees and a 4-year-old boy fleeing across the Tibetan border. He becomes obsessed with stories of Chinese brutality in the old-world Tibet they overran by force 40 years ago.

He also begins to question the ethics of playing rich men’s games in Third World countries, contributing little to the local people who endure a fearful struggle to survive. Oppression abroad makes him see mindless violence in his hometown of Sheffield in a new light. The book ends with his first trip to the Andes in Peru since Touching the Void.

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About the Author

Joe Simpson is the author of several bestselling books of which the first, Touching the Void, won both the NCR Award and the Boardman Tasker Award. It has become a classic and an international bestseller, translated into fourteen languages and made into an award-winning film.

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