Vignettes of a Writing Doctor: Half a Century of Stories

by Peter Steele

In a lifetime of travelling the world on mountain-climbing adventures, Peter Steele has written about his beloved mountains and some of the men who shared his passion. But the stories that are closest to his heart are the ones closest to his home. These 70-odd pieces reflect over half a century of writing, especially during his time in Atlin and the Yukon.ABOUT THE AUTHORRetired doctor and mountaineer Peter Steele was born in England and lived in far-flung places such as Nepal, Bhutan, and Labrador before settling in Whitehorse, Yukon with his family in 1975.Steele once ran the Grenfell flying doctor service in Labrador, travelling the coast by plane, dog team and boat. His first book, Two and Two Halves to Bhutan, tells the story of his young family’s adventures in the Himalayas. He was Medical Officer to the ill-fated 1971 International Everest Expedition, an experience recorded in Doctor on Everest. He followed this with two books on medical care in the wilderness, and Atlin’s Gold.Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond, a biography of the great British climber, won the Boardman Tasker prize for mountain literature. Steele’s book, The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid life of George Back, Franklin’s Lieutenant, won a Globe and Mail and Amazon.ca Book of the Year award.A pair of memoirs, Over the Hills and And Far Away recount his travel and mountaineering adventures. His most recent book is Sarah: A Love Story.

251 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 19, 2019

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[Daniel Davidson · Rating 5 out of 5]

70 vignettes from a doctor’s life

Peter Steele has been writing these delightful little essays for half a century, and this book as well worth reading.