A Bear Called Paddington & Man of Everest
A Bear Called Paddington is the first book of a collection of stories for children written by Michael Bond. I never heard about this little curious bear because here we hadn't this so extremely British books when I was a kid. The truth is that I am suspicious that we still don't have them translated even now. This book was published in 1958 for the first time.
I just started some few pages from the it and I have to say you I find it delicious. For me the English language used in it has the warm perfume of old set phrases that talk a lot about an era that seems to have disappeared for ever. Even this nostalgic side, the book is really funny and I laughed like an idiot until now. I have to continue to know what it will happen with this little Peruvian bear, even I am sure lot of you must know a lot of this nice guy already. For me it is a nice novelty and I am happy for this discovery:)
Man of Everest is a book written by James Ramsey Ullman after a long interview with Tensing Norgay, the first guy who reached the top of the Everest together with Sir Edmund Hillary. This book was published in 1955 for the first time. This exemplar is a very rare one: it is from the first edition, in English, and it was given by an English guy called H.R. Ridgway to my father, few before he died, in the early eighties.Mr. Ullman presents the book as a sort of autobiography of Mr. Tensing, but it seems he embellished the words of the Asian hero a little bit. Anyway it is a great human portrait. The truth is that, even to admire the beauty of high mountains and the effort of those who climb them, I never felt particularly attracted by the climbing too much, for don't say nothing. However this, lately I achieved some information about the two men who reached the Chomolungma (the mount Everest in Sherpa) for the first time, a Kiwi and a Sherpa, two very special kind of guys each one of them, by reading the first autobiography written by Mr. Hillary and another about the expedition made by a journalist.