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Index
The Climbing Essays
Introduction by Robert Macfarlane
Streets, Outcrops, Space: Autobiographical Sketches
Front step
Grandparents
Blacking Factory
My Dad at Birk Crag
A34
Stravaiging
Rock
Cultural
Cancer
Friendship
Love
Synthesis
Part One: Climbs
Young Climber
1: A Note on Commitment
2: Hubris
3: Right Unconquerable: A Gritstone Paean
Closing on Darkness
4: Street Illegal
5: Adventuring on the Lleyn
6: ‘In dreams begin responsibility.’
Peripatetic
7: Small Climbs in Germany
8: Day Trip to Dalkey
9: Bogles & Bog-trots
10: The Cow’s Mouth
Wave Lengths
11: Visions and Virians
12: Three Cornish Climbs
13: Fools Rush In
14: The Gate of Horn
15: In Search of Times Past
16: Welsh Slate: Rock & the Art of Abstraction (with Will Perrin)
17: Fictive Heroes
18: A True and Authentic History and Description of Fachwen
19: Small Personal Difficulties
20: (Beinn a’Chaoruinn and) The Vision of Glory
Part Two: The Climbers
1: Peter Crew – the way you climb is the way you are
2: John Hoyland – The Missing Dates
3: Batso & the American Dream
4: The Ice Climbers
5: My Last Climb with George Homer
6: Exploring Eric Shipton
7: Big Cat – John Redhead
8: The Essential Jack Longland
9: ‘ ... like a family of Ghosts’: Recollections of Peter Biven
10: Prankster, Maniac, Hero, Saint and Fool: Al Harris
11: Johnnie Lees – Space Below His Feet ...
12: Stevie Haston – Wild at Heart
13: The Character, Life and times of HW Tilman
14: The Only Genuine Joe: A Tribute
15: Cathy Powell: A Character Rewritten
16:Will
Part Three: On Climbing
1: Eating Bear Meat
2: Trains, Cafés, Conversations
3: Contumely of the Conquistadors
4: After the Funeral
5: In Praise of Competence
6: Grade Drift
7: On Three Historical Images
8: What’s good is bad, what’s bad is good ...
9: Why Do Trekkies Like to Visit Base Camps?
10: A Valediction
11: Confidence Moves
12: Fear is the Spur
13: ... the Lost and Perfect Hold
14: That Old Thing About Grace
15: ‘Denn bleiben ist nirgends.’
16: Fictions
17: Rained Up, Rained Off
18: Working on the Night Moves
19: No More Heroes Any More
20: Ways of Seeing
21: Kaleidoscope of the Senses
22: For Arnold Pines (broadcast version)
23: October
24: The Way & The Outcrop
Footnotes
Author Biography
Also by Jim Perrin
Copyright Page
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