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The Ascent of Rum Doodle Paperback - 2010

by W. E. Bowman; Introduction by Bill Bryson

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An English comic novel about a World War II expedition to a Himalayan peak.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BILL BRYSON

An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, The Ascent of Rum Doodle has been a cult favourite since its publication in 1956. Led by the reliably under-insightful Binder, a team of seven British men -- including Dr Prone (constantly ill), Jungle the route finder (constantly lost), Constant the diplomat (constantly arguing) -- and 3,000 Yogistani porters sets out to conquer the highest peak in the Himalayas.

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  • Title The Ascent of Rum Doodle
  • Author W. E. Bowman; Introduction by Bill Bryson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Pages 171
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House UK
  • Publication date 2010-05-03
  • ISBN 9780099530381 / 0099530384
  • Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.12 x 0.41 in (19.81 x 13.00 x 1.04 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Humorous stories, Humorous fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010514011
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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"Wonderful. Rum Doodle does for mountaineering what Three Men in a Boat did for Thames-going or Catch-22 did for the Second World War. It is simply an account of the leader of an expedition up Rum Doodle, a 40,000 and a half foot peak in the Himalayas, in the same way that Scoop is simply a tale about newsgathering in Africa. The tone is nearer to Pooter than anyone else I can think of, but the flavour is all W.E. Bowman's own."
--Sunday Times

"This wonderfully funny parody of adventure stories was first written in the 1950s but is just as fresh today with a truly brilliant comic narrator whose commentary on the expedition members is unintentionally hilarious."
--Sunday Mirror

"This gentle, deadly parody of the tight-arsed old school of British exploration narratives is seemingly a cult book among mountaineers, but it has been virtually unknown to the reading public since its first publication in 1956. "
--Guardian

About the author

W. E. Bowman (1911-1985) was a civil engineer who spent his free time hill-walking, painting, and writing (unpublished) books on the Theory of Relativity. Bill Bryson is the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and A Walk in the Woods.

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