MAD, BAD AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW
Book ID/图书代码： 04300007B17013
English Summary/英文概要： Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth, almost died countless times, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, raised millions of pounds for charity and been awarded a polar medal and an OBE. He has been an elite soldier, an athlete, a mountaineer, an explorer, a bestselling author and nearly replaced Sean Connery as James Bond. In his autobiography he describes how he led expeditions all over the world and became the first person to travel to both poles on land. He tells of how he discovered the lost city of Ubar in Oman and attempted to walk solo and unsupported to the North Pole - the expedition that cost him several fingers, and very nearly his life. His most recent challenge was scaling the north face of the Eiger, one of the most awesome mountaineering challenges in the world. Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes OBE, 3rd Baronet, looks back on a life lived at the very limits of human endeavour.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Sir Ranulph Fiennes 知名探險家，一九四四年畢業於伊頓公學，一九六三年加入皇家蘇格蘭軍隊。從一九六九年起，曾數次帶領探險隊遠征，包括長達三年環繞地球一周的探險之旅。一九八三年，魯柏羅大學授予榮譽博士，第二年更獲得了皇家地理學會授予的創始者獎章，和女皇授予的極地獎章，以及金氏世界記錄最偉大的探險家。曾登過聖母峰也橫跨過南極洲，並出版《意志極境—徒步橫跨南及大陸》(馬可孛羅出版)。
於這本新的自傳中，作者道出他如何帶領探險隊征服世界危險之地，並成為世界上首位踏上南北兩極的人；如何發現位於阿曼這個國家中失去已久的烏巴遺址；而南極是如何吸引他，讓他不依靠任何支援，心甘情願地獨自前往，幾乎失去生命；書中更詳細描述他最近一次的冒險，攀登瑞士境內最惡名昭彰的山區，最為人知的艱難登山挑戰，雷霆峰北坡面。
Awards/获奖情况：’Rip-roaringly readable’---Guardian ’Even readers with a broadly low tolerance for macho heroism will find themselves gripped . . . compelling’---Time Out
’It’s exhausting just reading about his exploits, so it is a perfect bedtime book. It’s delightful to plump up one’s duck-down pillows while vicariously enduring Fiennes’s successive plunges into the deadly waters of the Artcic, and his festering crotch-rot.’---Helena Drysdale, New Statesman Books of the Year
’It is lively and vivid, and often exciting as we anticipate each plunge into deadly Arctic waters. There are some wonderful throwaway lines . . . So, not an alien species after all but - as they say - a national treasure.’---Spectator
’enthralling’---Independent
About the Author/作者介绍： Sir Ranulph Fiennes was the first man to reach both poles (by surface travel) and the first to cross the Antarctic Continent unsupported. In the 1960s he was removed from the SAS Regiment for misuse of explosives but, joining the army of the Sultan of Oman, received that country`s Bravery Medal. He is the only person yet to have been awarded two clasps to the Polar medal for both Antarctic and the Arctic regions. Fiennes has led over 30 expeditions including the first polar circumnavigation of the Earth. In 1993 Her Majesty the Queen awarded Fiennes the Order of the British Empire (OBE) because, on the way to breaking records, he has raised over ￡10 million for charity.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes 知名探險家，一九四四年畢業於伊頓公學，一九六三年加入皇家蘇格蘭軍隊。從一九六九年起，曾數次帶領探險隊遠征，包括長達三年環繞地球一周的探險之旅。一九八三年，魯柏羅大學授予榮譽博士，第二年更獲得了皇家地理學會授予的創始者獎章，和女皇授予的極地獎章，以及金氏世界記錄最偉大的探險家。
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