Dorothy Pilley’s memoirs set her grand-grand-nephew on a beguiling quest to follow in her footsteps – up a mountainQuoting Dr Seuss,Dan Richards writes: It is fun to have fun / But you have to know how”. Climbing Days is the most enormous fun.
Richards first came to my notice with Holloway, the bestseller that he co-wrote, or indeed made,with the writer Robert Macfarlane and Radiohead cover artist Stanley Donwood (one early version of Holloway was a leather-bound, hand-printed, and boxed and sealed edition of 13 books – one of which I am lucky enough to own,although I have never fairly dared to fracture the red wax seal). final year saw the publication of The Beechwood Airship Interviews, and now here is the beguiling Climbing Days.
The accumulative effect of his language has something of the nonsense poems of Lewis Carroll about itContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com