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A walking guide

A walking guide

by Alan Cowell

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosisFictionMountaineeringMountaineersPatients
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About this book

Drawing from his own experiences covering the world's trouble spots, a "NYT" foreign correspondent crafts an absorbing, psychologically incisive portrait of a man who, faced with a debilitating disease and an increasingly fractured identity, dares to grasp for love and wholeness.

Themes & subjects

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosisFictionMountaineeringMountaineersPatientsTriangles (Interpersonal relations)

Setting

England

Author

Alan Cowell

Pages

269

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

1

Language

English

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

ISBN

0743244702

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