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UNCOMMON GROUND

Adventures with Outsiders

in Remarkable Terrain

 

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Dermot Somers

 

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ISBN: 978-1-917242-01-1

 

Price:  € 13.99 plus P&P

 

 

 

 

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About the Book:

 

These stories, essays and adventures by Dermot Somers, climber and award-winning writer, bring a lifetime of observation to bear on the steepest and the flattest places on the planet.

From the high pillars of the Alps to the Sahara Desert, the Arctic tundra to the Tibetan plateau, UNCOMMON GROUND embraces the dynamic characters who thrive in the most dramatic landscapes in the world.

Desert nomads, Arctic herders, mountain climbers flourish in these pages, their instincts and intelligence honed by the raw edges of existence.

 

UNCOMMON GROUND celebrates a host of vivid characters exposed by radical landscape. The author’s lifelong interests — travel, culture and adventure — are expressed in essays and dramatic accounts, while his themes are mirrored in a selection of short fiction alive with humour and drama.

In ‘The Fight’, green canvas is stretched on Siberian ice and two brothers wrestle to the final, vengeful throw; grappling with steep ground, the author rattles across the great north faces of the Alps; ‘Into the Desert’ accompanies a serene Sahara guide as he leads his camels for the last time through burning expanses of sand; Arctic reindeer, beasts of burden, are the heroes of ‘The Mules that Angels Ride’.

 

 

 

About the Author:

 

Dermot Somers is a writer, former broadcaster, and a mountaineer. He lives in Drogheda with his wife Maeve.

With Crossing the Line Films, he has presented many travel and adventure programmes on TV.

His fiction, history and travel-writing have been published in English and in Irish, winning awards in both languages. A member of the successful first Irish Everest expedition, 1993, he has travelled the world as a climber, with a particular interest in the Alps, and the Himalayas.