George Mallory on Everest
Reading Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis last year, really fired my interest on …
Reading Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis last year, really fired my interest on …
George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the …
(via khakisoul) That unforgettable last line from F.Scott-Fitzgerald’s – The Great Gatsby
An extract from one of my favourite books – JG Ballard’s magnificent – and controversial – Crash. Magnificent not because of the …
“I’ll tell you,” said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, “what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter …
Source Image © Leo Newball on Flickr. So said JG Ballard – a true prophet for our time and an author I covet …
England expects that every man will do his duty …was a signal sent by Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson from his …