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Joe Simpson

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born
August 13, 1950 in Sheffield, The United Kingdom

gender
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genre
Outdoors & Nature, Nonfiction


About this author

Joe Simpson is the author of the bestselling Touching the Void, as well as four subsequent non-fiction books published by The Mountaineers Books: This Game of Ghosts, Storms of Silence, Dark Shadows Falling, and The Beckoning Silence. The Beckoning Silence won the 2003 National Outdoor Book Award. The other three published by The Mountaineers Books were all shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award.


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Average rating: 4.09 · 7,316 ratings · 612 reviews · 17 distinct works
Touching the Void: The True...
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 6,436 ratings — published 1988 — 22 editions
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The Beckoning Silence
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 288 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions
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This Game of Ghosts
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions
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Dark Shadows Falling
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions
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Storms of Silence
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions
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Epic: Stories of Survival f...
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1999
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The Sound of Gravity: A Novel
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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The Water People
3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions
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Im Banne des Giganten: Der ...
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions
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Dotknięcie pustki
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004
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“Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?”
― Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
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“my eyes blurred wetly with hot tears”
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“Clouds hid the peaks and only their flanks were visible beneath a murky ceiling.”
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