Full of Myself
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (864 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00ASZ3SME |
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| Number of Pages | : | 541 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Seminal" according to Andy Smailes. A seminal epoch in UK climbing.I've read the bios of Moffatt and Fawcett. Good reads both of them. Glad I am too that Pete Livesey, sadly unable to contribute, is given a suitable history and memorable goodbye.Unlike either of the aforementioned authors, Dawes comes from (forgive me for the blasphemy) a privileged and well educated background. Not only does his climbing have the highest pedigree, but he is clearly also given free rein to write of it as he wills. Editorial input be damned; this is entirely Johnny's work. And, poet that he is, most of t. Poorly linked thoughts of a brilliant talent. Jim Perrin needs to write his story Ramshackle nonsense full of indecipherable climbing jargon. Poorly linked thoughts of a brilliant talent. Jim Perrin needs to write his story, not Johnny himself.
Praise for the man and book from Leo Houlding"Johnny Dawes is the enigmatic front man of an eclectic band of British climbers who in the mid 1980's redefined the standards of difficulty and danger in traditional climbing. Written with devoted passion and brutal honesty, "Full of Myself" lays bare Johnny's bipolar mix of privilege and pain, wizardry and dysfunction. Master of friction and maestro of momentum on rock and road, orchestrator of contemporary climbing techniques such as the dead-point and dyno, the living embodiment of poetry in motion turns his hand to the pen with great effect." Ed Douglas adds"Johnny Dawes is a legend in British climbing. Much like his climbing, his imagination leaps - this is a beautiful book about an extraordinary person. At the heart of the book is a man traversing on crystals towards some kind of understanding of who he is, a man less earth-bound than us climbing mortals, but who cannot, quite, fly. William Blake with sticky boots.". This long awaited book gives his take on a highly influential period of climbing history and a look inside the mind of a tormented
I could see positive freakiness that made him go out of the ordinary, to climb with ease things that must be admired and that should inspire many to come." (Adam Ondra) "Like a Terry Pratchett novel it gives an insight into the many dimensions of Johnny's life which left me in stitches." (James McHaffie) "I've been fortunate to climb with some of the best climbers of the last 30 years, Fawcett, Moon, Moffat, McClure, but only when climbing with Johnny have I been baffled and bemused. And the climbing accounts are riveting as well. To watch him climb in his prime was something special, so special that some dismissed it as an oddity, don't be fooled, the term great is rarely