Being a Man - Robert Twigger

Being a Man

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Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
2007
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-0-7538-1378-2 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
Further adventures in extreme (and not so extreme) sports, from the bestselling author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS.

Having learnt Aikido with the Tokyo riot police (ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS) and hunted for the world's longest snake in the jungles of the Far East (BIG SNAKE), Robert Twigger now turns his attention to other traditionally male pursuits and pastimes (some of which are fairly close to home, some of which are more extreme), and looks at the questions these raise about masculinity and the role of man in modern society.

BEING A MAN features Twigger participating in, and writing on: the informal rules and thrill seeking of solo climbing, bullfighting in Spain, the 'illicit pleasure of buying my first gun', and the rules of survival with a tribe of Naga headhunters - the sort of activities and pursuits often scorned in the modern, interiorised office-based world.

ROBERT TWIGGER has won the Newdigate Prize for poetry, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His twelve books have been translated into over twenty languages and cover both fiction and non-fiction, memoir and travel. He spent a year training with the Tokyo riot police, crossed Canada in a homemade birchbark canoe and was the first person to traverse entirely on foot the Egyptian Great Sand Sea. His quarterly comic of memoir and travel, This Simple Life, is available at roberttwigger.com

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.2.2007
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 128 x 198 mm
Gewicht 180 g
Themenwelt Literatur Comic / Humor / Manga
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
Reisen Reiseberichte
ISBN-10 0-7538-1378-5 / 0753813785
ISBN-13 978-0-7538-1378-2 / 9780753813782
Zustand Neuware
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