Second Ascent

By Alison Osius

Book Overview

A guide to grammar and its usage, arranged in an alphabetical, dictionary format, features the most up-to-date grammar rules, cross-referencing, a key word index, and a glossary. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440214637
• ISBN13: 9780440214632
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Laurel Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

second ascent:the story of hugh herr

this was a very good book and i would recommend it to anyone that likes to read about a good struggle and that thinks they have it hard.

Touching, intimate story of true grit and good character.

It seems like a simple story: Boy meets climbing, boy loses legs, boy learns to climb again and rediscovers the joys of life. But nothing about the story is really that simple - its just like real life, complicated, sometimes perplexing. Alison's vivid and intimate depiction of this true-life heroic tale is masterful, and the hero of the tale is Hugh's terrible and terrific struggle back from losing his legs to again being the filled-with-the-joy-of-life person (and incidentally, a pretty darn good climber) at a more mature level than previously possible. A hidden classic.