Is Paris Burning? is a wonderful book--informative, interesting and terrifying. I enjoyed reading it and learned a lot about the liberation of Paris during WWII. I recommend it to anyone, but especially those interested in WWII.
I've returned to the book about the 1986 expeditions to K2 that resulted in a number of deaths, including two Americans who were lost in a landslide. The book's name is K2: Triumph and Tragedy; the author, Jim Curran, is a photographer who was on the mountain during that summer to photograph the expeditions. He describes what happened in detail.
Actually, a bit too much detail for me, I think, although I must admit that his audience seems to be other mountaineers who will understand the jargon and the technical descriptions of equipment and mountaineering techniques.
It does have a degree of suspense, though, despite the reader's knowledge of the tragic outcome. If you don't want to skip to the end of the book to see who survived, you can just look at the many pictures whose captions spill the beans.
Notwithstanding my difficulty with its technical detail, I'm enjoying the book and will continue reading it to the doubtless bitter end.
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| Jim Curran, taken from his website |
Actually, a bit too much detail for me, I think, although I must admit that his audience seems to be other mountaineers who will understand the jargon and the technical descriptions of equipment and mountaineering techniques.
It does have a degree of suspense, though, despite the reader's knowledge of the tragic outcome. If you don't want to skip to the end of the book to see who survived, you can just look at the many pictures whose captions spill the beans.
Notwithstanding my difficulty with its technical detail, I'm enjoying the book and will continue reading it to the doubtless bitter end.
