Wall and Roof Climbing (Climbing Cambridge) - Softcover

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TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY EXTREME SPORT

Five years after successfully launching the original in the Night Climbing series, The Roof-Climbers Guide to Trinity, on an unsuspecting world in 1900, Geoffrey Winthrop-Young penned an astonishingly erudite parody of the literature guides of the time. With extensive stegophilic references and quotations drawn from the literature of the the last two thousand years and more, he nearly manages to prove that Catullus and Aristophanes, Shakespeare and Longfellow - amongst very many others - were avid enthusiasts and exponents of roof climbing...

THE FIRST NIGHT CLIMBING TITLE

In several inter-connected sections GW-Y explores and explains the different ages and types of building and the necessary differences in materials used prompting the alternative ways of tackling said. He examines the rich literary history of the sport in global proverbs, poetry and prose. The varied costumes, the prevalence of women roof-climbers and geographic differences in thought are all woven together in an almost exhaustive expose of this sport that remains so popular today but has a philosophy as difficult to define now as then:

We have no doubt the guide will be as useful now as then but concur with the contemporary reviewer when he notes:

If you're a fan of free-running, parkour, buildering and, of course, wall and roof climbing, then this fascinating book will make your day.

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