Geoffrey Winthrop Young

by Alan Hankinson

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A climbers' guru par excellence of the interwar years, Winthrop Young was also an educationalist who helped Kurt Hahn found the "Outward Bound" movement, and was closely involved with German attempts to oust Hitler. He was a patriot and a dedicated European, a homosexual and a devoted family man, and lived his life among politicians and leaders like Theodore Roosevelt, Churchill, Baden-Powell and the Kaiser. This biography, which uses freely Winthrop Young's unpublished diaries and letters, attempts to unravel the complexities of this many-sided man.
  • ISBN10 034057609X
  • ISBN13 9780340576090
  • Publish Date 6 April 1995
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 4 May 2000
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
  • Imprint Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Language English