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Simon Winchester | a History of Precision Engineering and the Making of the Modern World

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James Morris's Coronation Everest

I was obsessed with mountaineering and I would go every two or three weeks to a British council library in a place called Fort Portal about 30 miles away. And one day I got a book called Coronation Everest by a man called James Morris. He had been the London Times correspondent on the expedition to Mount Everest that got to the summit in 1953, 31st of May 1953. So I thought, my God, this is an amazing story of James's. But I wasn't any good at traveling around the world with a hammer and bottle of sulfuric acid in a magnifying glass. Maybe all I had to do was to travel around theWorld with a pencil and a notebook.

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