The Moth and the Mountain

Name: The Moth and the Mountain
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780241977255
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Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2021

By Ed Caesar

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The Moth and the Mountain by Ed Caesar recounts the extraordinary journey of Maurice Wilson, an eccentric British war veteran who sets out on a daring adventure in the 1930s to climb Mount Everest. Driven by personal demons and a quest for redemption, Wilson plans to crash-land a plane on the mountain's slopes and then scale the peak solo. This true-life narrative highlights his audacious and unconventional approach to mountaineering, blending aviation with exploration.
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You may enjoy this book if you're fascinated by daring historical adventures and eccentric characters. It tells the gripping story of Maurice Wilson, who, in the 1930s, embarked on an audacious mission to climb Mount Everest despite having little mountaineering experience. The tale beautifully intertwines personal ambition with a larger-than-life quest, sure to captivate fans of adventure and biography.

The Moth and the Mountain

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The untold story of Britain's most mysterious mountaineering legend—Maurice Wilson—and his heroic attempt to climb Everest. Alone.

In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran conceived his own crazy, beautiful plan. He would fly a Gipsy Moth aeroplane from England to Everest, crash land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit—by himself. Maurice Wilson didn't know how to climb. He barely knew how to fly. But he had pluck, daring, and a vision—he wanted to be the first man to stand on top of the world.

Wilson is a man written out of the history books—dismissed as an eccentric and a charlatan by many, but held in the highest regard by many mountaineers. The Moth and the Mountain restores him to his rightful place in the annals of Everest and in doing so attempts to answer that perennial question—why do we climb mountains?

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241977255

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 June 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 205g

Pages: 288

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Biography & Memoir Ed Caesar Education & Reference Explorer & Adventurer Biographies Non-Fiction Penguin Books Science & Nature Sports Sports Biographies

About the Author

Ed Caesar is forty years old. He lives in Manchester, and writes for the New Yorker. He has won eleven major journalism awards - including a British Press Award, PPA Writer of the Year and the 2014 Foreign Press Award for Journalist of the Year. His subjects have included conflict in central Africa, the world's longest tennis match, stolen art, money-laundering, and the trade in diamonds. His first book, Two Hours, won a Cross Sports Book Award in 2016.