This book collects the essays and songs of Dr. Tom Patey, a well-known and highly-liked Scottish raconteur and climber.
(raconteur: someone who tells stories with charisma and wit)
Patey died in a rappelling accident in 1970, and this book was published posthumously. It includes his writings from mountaineering magazines and journals, and his songs and poems, which had been sung in pubs and shated by word of mouth, but never before published.
288 pages, with b&w photos throughout. These copies are hardcover first editions from Gollancz, but all are later printings.
