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Fear

By: Ranulph Fiennes
Narrated by: Ranulph Fiennes
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BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes has climbed the Eiger and Mount Everest. He's crossed both Poles on foot. He's been a member of the SAS and fought a bloody guerrilla war in Oman. And yet he confesses that his fear of heights is so great that he'd rather send his wife up a ladder to clean the gutters than do it himself.

In Fear, the world's greatest explorer delves into his own experiences to try to explain what fear is, how it happens and how he's overcome it so successfully. He examines key moments from history where fear played an important part in the outcomes of great events.

With an enthralling combination of storytelling, research and personal accounts of his own struggles to overcome fear, Sir Ranulph Fiennes sheds new light on one of humanity's strongest emotions.

©2016 Ranulph Fiennes (P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton Adventure Travel Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Adventure War Africa Survival
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It’s a good book for stories and obviously well researched. Fiennes has established himself worthy of being able to tell these stories. I’m just not sure where it was heading as it doesn’t really draw any conclusions.

Interesting book but gets lost

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A great author with a lifetime of adventures, however this book was a collection of brief stories about people in fearful situations. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a link with any of it and didn’t get any helpful insight into how to deal with fear in any real life context. The narration was very flat and regularly found myself drifting off. I would be interested to listen to some of his other books, hopefully better than this one.

Great Author but this book is lacking

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