Limits of the Known
by David Roberts
Publication Date – February 20, 2018
3.5 stars
David Roberts has written many books on his own
mountaineering exploits and on other adventurers, such as himself, who have
blazed new ground. This collection
covers some of those adventurers while also interspersing with his own stories
and his current battle with stage four throat cancer. I have a hard time coming down too harshly on
this book because it is obviously a labor of love from someone who is facing
his own mortality but I do have to admit at times I found myself losing interest. Maybe it is because I wanted more about his
own adventures, of which there are many, but I found myself getting bored with
the intricate details of the history of these explorers. I do think that it lays out the present
difficulty of exploration in our age of constant communication and GPS and
those are the parts that I found most interesting. Overall, this is a solid history of the
plight of the adventurer through the ages.
I received an ARC of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an
honest review.
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