Drawn: The Art of Ascent
N**A
Lovely book
Beautiful book, boyfriend loved.
M**N
Highly recommended both as a mountaineers book, and artistic and journal content feast!
I'm not a mountaineer, but I was interested in this book as an artist and journal writer. It is simply a beautiful book to flick through! The author's style makes every page an experience. Once I got past the artistic enjoyment of handwritten and printed text with drawn and painted art work and photos all combined, the story he tells is engrossing. Highly recommended both as a mountaineers book, and artistic and journal content feast!
R**E
Bought for my climber boys - he loved it!
Was delivered in a couple of weeks. Perfect condition. Well wrapped. A beautifully illustrated and moving book of adventure.
J**N
Interesting
Unusual for a climbing publication - I liked it!
P**C
Five Stars
pleased with product and price
A**1
Five Stars
A beautiful book, with amazing photographs.
P**A
Absorbing read
The media could not be loaded. I spotted this book accidentally on Amazon and knew I had to get it. This book wasn't on my radar and appeared out of nowhere.Drawn: The Art of Ascent is actually a travelogue journal of climbing expeditions by Jeremy Collins. Collected within are wonderful stories, beautiful hand drawn art and photo collages.The book focuses on four main climbs in different continents. Collins is an adventurer at heart and one who really loves climbing mountains. I can sense his enthusiasm through the pages, words and the art. He also loves his family and he calls the situation he's in as living in a love paradox. He mentions that he misses his family at night while he's outside sleeping under the open sky. I found that to be touching.When his friend died during an avalanche in China, he brought along his friend's ashes to scatter at the summits he scaled.The storytelling is fantastic. He describes his adventures in detail with beautiful imagery, either drawn or in words, the people he meets, his climbing buddies and the mountains he climbs.There's also tension in the book. You won't know until the next page whether he had made a slip or his gear came loose to send him tossing down the side of the mountain. It happened a few times and that really made for some tense reading. I finished the book in one sitting as I wasn't able to put down the book.I can only imagine how awe-inspiring it is to be standing at the foot of mountains, and how amazing it is to be able to scale one.Highly recommended(See more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
