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Shadow Buttress
This is a book for readers who are interested in rock climbing, guide dogs, a good story with well-drawn characters, plenty of action and fresh pictorial descriptions.
In Shadow Buttress, a man for whom the beauty and challenge of the great peaks means LIFE, is threatened by the slow onset of total blindness. Humour and a determined heroine successfully defy the dark obsession symbolized by Shadow Buttress. The setting is the Western Highlands, and the northern hills are as truly painted from life as are the thrills and exhilaration of difficult rock-climbing.
In Shadow Buttress, a man for whom the beauty and challenge of the great peaks means LIFE, is threatened by the slow onset of total blindness. Humour and a determined heroine successfully defy the dark obsession symbolized by Shadow Buttress. The setting is the Western Highlands, and the northern hills are as truly painted from life as are the thrills and exhilaration of difficult rock-climbing.
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First published January 1, 1959
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Showell Styles
204 books8 followersAka Glyn Carr
Frank Showell Styles was a Welsh writer and mountaineer.
Showell Styles was born in Four Oaks, Birmingham and was educated at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield. Known to his friends as 'Pip', Showell Styles' childhood was spent in the hills of North Wales where he became an avid mountaineer and explorer. During the Second World War, Styles joined the Royal Navy and was posted in the Mediterranean, but even there he walked and climbed as much as he could.
An aspiring writer, Styles already had articles published in Punch, before setting out to make his living as an author. His first novel, Traitor’s Mountain, was a murder mystery set on and around Tryfan in Wales. He became a prolific writer with over 160 books published for children as well as adults. In addition to historic naval adventure fiction such as the Midshipman Quinn and Lieutenant Michael Fitton series set during the Napoleonic Wars, and non-fiction works on mountains and such as The Mountaineer’s Weekend Book, he wrote detective fiction under the pseudonym of Glyn Carr, and humorous pieces as C.L. Inker.
For walkers visiting Snowdonia for the first time, Styles' The Mountains of North Wales is monumentally inspirational, written by a sure hand and with a firm conviction and love of these mountains.
Frank Showell Styles was a Welsh writer and mountaineer.
Showell Styles was born in Four Oaks, Birmingham and was educated at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield. Known to his friends as 'Pip', Showell Styles' childhood was spent in the hills of North Wales where he became an avid mountaineer and explorer. During the Second World War, Styles joined the Royal Navy and was posted in the Mediterranean, but even there he walked and climbed as much as he could.
An aspiring writer, Styles already had articles published in Punch, before setting out to make his living as an author. His first novel, Traitor’s Mountain, was a murder mystery set on and around Tryfan in Wales. He became a prolific writer with over 160 books published for children as well as adults. In addition to historic naval adventure fiction such as the Midshipman Quinn and Lieutenant Michael Fitton series set during the Napoleonic Wars, and non-fiction works on mountains and such as The Mountaineer’s Weekend Book, he wrote detective fiction under the pseudonym of Glyn Carr, and humorous pieces as C.L. Inker.
For walkers visiting Snowdonia for the first time, Styles' The Mountains of North Wales is monumentally inspirational, written by a sure hand and with a firm conviction and love of these mountains.
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