Diddly Squat's Encyclopedia of Mountaineering by Steve Ashton (Kindle Edition -26 Oct 2012) - Kindle eBook ONLY £1.93
My friend Steve Aston, writer and climber, has just published his first ebook.
This climbing encyclopedia would make an ideal Christmas present for any climber who has a computer, laptop, ipod, tablet or kindle. And it has the added attraction of costing only £1.93. The book can be read without owning a kindle by downloading a free reader from Amazon.
If you do decide to give someone the book as a gift...
- and I strongly urge you to do so. Otherwise you may end up buying your climbing friends hardback books, bottles of whisky, a new rope and other expensive stuff.-
If you do decide to give someone the book as a gift you will have to send an Amazon Gift Voucher for £1.93.
I suggest an email voucher is easiest. I have yet to try it but the process looks easy enough.
You cannot purchase a Kindle eBook and then pass it on, or simply buy the book itself as a gift. At least not in the UK.
You may have guessed from the name that Diddly Squat's Encyclopedia of Mountaineering is not entirely serious. It is partially based on material from Steve's humorous pieces for a famous climbing magazine, so there are jokes that most 'normal' people will find incomprehensible but will have climbers convulsed by uncontrollable fits of giggles.
For example:
Nutkin. A domestic squirrel trained to gather nuts in May in readiness for the summer climbing season.
Despite an online search I have no idea what this means.
Rack: the selection of gear chosen to protect a particular route. A drying rack is is used for routes having a mixture of dry and damp hold, whereas routes that overhang severely are best tackled with a roof rack.
I partially understand this as I have a roof rack of my own.
An inflatable one, since you ask.
Alpenstock: A big pointy stick. Also, an expedition's store of proprietary breakfast cereal.
This I do understand.
So to guarantee a jovial Christmas for your climbing friends all you need to spend is £1.93.
Purchasing your own copy is also a very good way of making friends with climbers. Simply approach them and say
'I'm reading Diddly Squat's Encyclopedia of Mountaineering but I don't understand what he means by ------. Can you explain?'
Who knows, this book could change your life.
My friend Steve Aston, writer and climber, has just published his first ebook.
This climbing encyclopedia would make an ideal Christmas present for any climber who has a computer, laptop, ipod, tablet or kindle. And it has the added attraction of costing only £1.93. The book can be read without owning a kindle by downloading a free reader from Amazon.
If you do decide to give someone the book as a gift...
- and I strongly urge you to do so. Otherwise you may end up buying your climbing friends hardback books, bottles of whisky, a new rope and other expensive stuff.-
If you do decide to give someone the book as a gift you will have to send an Amazon Gift Voucher for £1.93.
I suggest an email voucher is easiest. I have yet to try it but the process looks easy enough.
You cannot purchase a Kindle eBook and then pass it on, or simply buy the book itself as a gift. At least not in the UK.
You may have guessed from the name that Diddly Squat's Encyclopedia of Mountaineering is not entirely serious. It is partially based on material from Steve's humorous pieces for a famous climbing magazine, so there are jokes that most 'normal' people will find incomprehensible but will have climbers convulsed by uncontrollable fits of giggles.
For example:
Nutkin. A domestic squirrel trained to gather nuts in May in readiness for the summer climbing season.
Despite an online search I have no idea what this means.
Rack: the selection of gear chosen to protect a particular route. A drying rack is is used for routes having a mixture of dry and damp hold, whereas routes that overhang severely are best tackled with a roof rack.
I partially understand this as I have a roof rack of my own.
An inflatable one, since you ask.
Alpenstock: A big pointy stick. Also, an expedition's store of proprietary breakfast cereal.
This I do understand.
So to guarantee a jovial Christmas for your climbing friends all you need to spend is £1.93.
Purchasing your own copy is also a very good way of making friends with climbers. Simply approach them and say
'I'm reading Diddly Squat's Encyclopedia of Mountaineering but I don't understand what he means by ------. Can you explain?'
Who knows, this book could change your life.