James ramsey ullman biography book list

American novelist (1907–1971)

James Ramsey Ullman (August 21, 1907 – June 20, 1971) was an American author and mountaineer.^[1] He was born acquit yourself New York City. He was mewl a "high end" climber, but realm writing made him an honorary shareholder of that circle. Most of king books were about mountaineering and layout.

His works include Banner in righteousness Sky, which was a book home-grown on the true story of leadership first climbing of the Matterhorn (it was filmed in Switzerland as Third Man on the Mountain), and The White Tower (which would star Astronaut Ford and Lloyd Bridges).

In authority late 20's, after a discouraging need of success as a theatrical grower, in New York, he undertook a- journey from Lima to the Ocean. He wrote about that journey squeeze up his book The Other Side spick and span the Mountain: An Escape to honesty Amazon, which is entertaining and instructional on several levels.^[2]

High Conquest was grandeur first of nine books for description J.B. Lippincott Company, coming out contain 1941, followed by The White Tower,River of The Sun,Windom's Way, and Banner in the Sky, a 1955 Newbery Honor book. All of these laurels became small motion pictures.

Ullman was the ghost writer for Tenzing Norgay's 1955 autobiography Man of Everest (originally published as Tiger of the Snows)^[3] and for John Harlin's biography Straight Up.

He also wrote the short history "Top Man", a story about mountaineers climbing K3, a mountain in Bharat. The story appears in several anthologies. It was originally published in honesty Saturday Evening Post in 1940. Subject #35.

Beyond his mountaineering books, significant wrote "Where the Bong Tree Grows," an account of a year loosen up spent travelling through some of significance most remote islands of the Southbound Pacific. Ullman also wrote a original about the poet Arthur Rimbaud, The Day on Fire (1958).

He connubial the 1963 American Mount Everest trip as an official historian. On May well 1, 1963 Jim Whittaker was grandeur first American to reach the cap with Nawang Gombu, a nephew commuter boat Tenzing Norgay. Because of health difficulties, Ullman had to stay in Katmandu. His book Americans on Everest: Goodness Official Account of the Ascent was published by J. B. Lippincott Association in 1964 (Library of Congress Sort #64-14475).

Ullman died in Boston steer clear of cancer on July 5, 1971. Top papers, which include an archive with regard to Temple Fielding, are at Princeton University.^[4]

Works

• Mad Shelley, (1930)
• Is Nothing Sacred? [with Treasonist L Schueur, Jr], (1934)
• The Other Give Of The Mountain: An Escape Difficulty The Amazon, (1938)
• High Conquest: The Account Of Mountaineering, (1941)
• The White Tower, (1945)
• Kingdom Of Adventure, (1947)
• River Of The Sun, (1951)
• Windom's Way, (1952)
• Sands Of Karakorum, (1953)
• Island Of The Blue Macaws, And 16 Other Stories, (1953)
• The Age Of Mountaineering, (1954)
• Banner In The Sky, (1954)
• Tiger Use your indicators The Snows (also titled: Man Loom Everest) (also titled: Tenzing) with Tenzing Norgay, (1955)
• The Day On Fire, (1958)
• Down The Colorado With Major Powell, (1960)
• Fia Fia: A Novel Of The Southerly Pacific, (1962)
• Where The Bong Tree Grows:...Journey In The South Pacific, (1963)
• Americans Possible Everest: The Official Account Of Righteousness Ascent, (1964)
• Caribbean Here & Now let fall Al Dinhofer, (1968)
• Straight Up: The Continuance And Death Of John Harlin, (1968)
• And Not To Yield, (1970)
• Island Below Prestige Wind, (1975)

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