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It is clear that Ed Caesar loves his hero. I think I do too'\u003c\/b\u003e -- Joe Simpson, author of \u003ci\u003eTouching the Void\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The adventurer Maurice Wilson was a forgotten figure until Ed Caesar's brilliantly written book restored him to his rightful place in the annals of exploration\u003c\/b\u003e... Caesar's book received enormous praise on publication last year and rightly so. \u003cb\u003eThis splendid tale is every bit as exciting as any adventure novel and deeply moving'\u003c\/b\u003e -- Alex Larman * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e'This bonkers ripping yarn of derring-don't is \u003cb\u003ea hell of a ride ... \u003c\/b\u003escrupulously researched ... 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That such an extraordinary person even existed is cause for celebration'\u003c\/b\u003e * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A wonderful adventure story, beautifully told. \u003c\/b\u003eBased on years of painstaking archival research, Ed Caesar's \u003ci\u003eThe Moth and the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e brings us a modern-day myth with a beguiling, impossible hero from a vanished era of empire, one man on an epic quest that is \u003cb\u003eby turns gripping and heartbreaking'\u003c\/b\u003e -- Adam Higginbotham, author of \u003ci\u003eMidnight in Chernobyl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'The Moth and the Mountain \u003c\/i\u003eis a gripping story of heroism, adventure, madness and thwarted love, told with extraordinary empathy and intelligence. \u003cb\u003eEd Caesar is a writer of rare style and depth, and he has written a great and moving work of non-fiction\u003c\/b\u003e' -- Mark O'Connell, Wellcome Book Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eTo Be a Machine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNotes from an Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In the 1930s, an Englishman, Maurice Wilson - a traumatized veteran of the Great War - decided he would fly to Mount Everest, crash-land on the slopes and climb to the summit alone. 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