Limits of the Known

In a book that is part memoir and part history, David Roberts looks back at his personal relationship to extreme risk and tries to make sense of why so many have committed their lives to the desperate pursuit of adventure. In the wake of his diagnosis with throat cancer, Roberts seeks the answer with sharp new urgency. He explores his own lifelong commitment to adventuring, as well as the cultural contributions of explorers throughout history. He looks at what it meant in 1911 for Amundsen to reach the South Pole or in 1953 for Hillary and Norgay to summit the highest point on earth. And he asks what the future of adventure is in a world we have mapped and trodden all the way to the most remote corners of the wilderness.

ISBN:	9780393609868
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Imprint:	W.W. Norton and Company
Published date:	20 Feb 2018
DEWEY:	796.522092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xxii, 306
Weight:	562g
Height:	169mm
Width:	244mm
Spine width:	31mm

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