Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating, contemporary graded material that will instantly appeal to students. Based on the internationally accla
Presents an account of the author and Simon's (author's climbing partner) terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. This book shows how the pair dealt with the psychological traumas. It not only tel
The book behind the BAFTA award-winning film.Winner of the NCR Award for non-fiction and the Boardman Tasker award.Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure
1985年五月，來自英國的兩名登山者「喬辛普森」及「賽門亞特」征服高達二萬八百英呎的秘魯安第斯山「斯拉格蘭峰」。登上峰頂的二人，原以為會是一趟成功之旅，卻萬萬沒想到，邪惡死神竟在回程等待他們… In 1985, top mountaineers Joe Simpson and his friend Simon Yates went climbing in the Peruvian
Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his
In using case studies such as Touching the Void (2003) and the films of Nick Broomfield, this timely introduction to the growing field of documentary explores the definition and understanding of the
