{"product_id":"white-hardback-9781509565528","title":"White (Hardback) 9781509565528","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhite\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSylvain Tesson (Author), Christine Gutman (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509565528, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 October 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e180 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.3 x 14.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.386 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Sylvain Tesson is more a word artist than a nonfiction writer. He writes with the nuanced ear of a great novelist, the soul of a poet, and the urgency of a messenger. \u003ci\u003eWhite\u003c\/i\u003e is both journey and pilgrimage, part travelogue, part prayer.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarl Safina, ecologist and author \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A journal from the edge of the world, laced with witty, poetic observations and exquisitely graceful turns of phrase.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLe Monde des Livres\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A vertiginous immersion in the secret beauty of snow-capped summits, a journey as poetic as it is spiritual.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLa Grande Librairie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The French writer Sylvian Tesson feels anxiety lilt, bitterness vanish and travel transform into prayer in the course of a ski journey across the Alps.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara Wheeler, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Magnificent\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJustin Marozzi, \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of the Year 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lyrical... Readers will be swept up in this sly intellectual adventure.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Sylvain Tesson is a fan of extreme adventures testing his mental and physical endurance. That urge beckons him toward the mountains… Like Herman Melville's Captain Ahab in pursuit of his whale, Mr. Tesson is drawn to 'The White,' his mythic name for mountain snowscapes.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJournal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"This latest offering from Tesson is a gem: unusually erudite, hugely readable, often funny and a little bit bonkers.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJustin Marozzi, \u003ci\u003eThe Critic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Sylvain Tesson left the colourful yellow houses of the French Riviera for a ski trek across the Alps with his friend, a high-altitude mountain guide, he didn't know what exactly awaited him. The trek would turn into an extraordinary adventure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the course of four years they ascended high into the Alps in winter, following the curve of the mountains from the Mediterranean to the Adriatic, immersing themselves in a strange white world made entirely of snow. In the bitter cold and overlooked by an empty sky, only the effort of moving forward, one difficult stride at a time, separated the days from one another. And as they trudged onwards, the never-ending white of the high Alps cancelled out all feelings – hope, fear, memory and regret.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat did he stand to gain by inflicting this ordeal on himself? This was no ordinary mountain trek: it was a search for communion with the magic substance of the White.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlso available as an audiobook.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eForeword: What Is to Be Done?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Year One: 2018. Freedom\u003cbr\u003e Year Two: 2019. Time\u003cbr\u003e Year Three: 2020. Beauty\u003cbr\u003e Year Four: 2021. 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