William Hutchison Murray (1913 - 1996) was one of Scotland's most distinguished climbers in the years before and after the Second World War. As a prisoner of war in Italy he wrote his first classic book, Mountaineering in Scotland, on rough toilet paper which was confiscated and destroyed by the Gestapo. The rewritten version was published in 1947 and followed by the, w, equally famous, Undiscovered Scotland. In 1951 he was depute leader to Eric Shipton on the Everest Reconnaissance Expedition. In later years he became a successful velist and pioneer conservationist.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Sandstone Press Ltd
ISBN-10
1908737387
ISBN-13
9781908737380
eBay Product ID (ePID)
158296451
Product Key Features
Author
Robin Lloyd-Jones
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Biography: Sport
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Dingwall
Content Note
50 Illustrations
Author Biography
Robin Lloyd-Jones is a climber, teacher, and award winning author of novels, short fiction, radio drama and non-fiction. He is a former president of the Scottish Association of Writers and of Scottish PEN. He was a tutor in creative writing at Glasgow University and was awarded an honorary fellowship of the School of Latin American Studies following his book on street children, Fallen Angels (1992).