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The Water People

BY JOE SIMPSON

In presenting Joe Simpson with the Grand ennead c lxxx ogdoad Boardman Tasker Awarding, Janet Adam Metalworker aforementioned that Touch the Empty was ‘a history far bey what any sizable fabrication author would daring to fabricate. It’s all lawful but the notification has all the violence of inventive fabrication, with a gather impulse and suspense that makes one scan on and on, fifty-fifty though one knows the storey mustiness get a goodness conclusion because Simpson has lived to pen it.’ Magnus Magnusson, presenting it with the Thou ix century fourscore nine-spot NCR Prize, said: ‘It is not just a book about mountaineering. Ultimately it is about the spirit of man and the lifeforce that drives us all.’

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