ReadersMagnet Will Spotlight Alan V. Goldman’s Adventure Poetry Book “Reflections on Mountaineering” at the 2024 London Book Fair

Alan V. Goldman’s adventure poetry book, “Reflections on Mountaineering: A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains” (Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded)(with Addendum), will be showcased by the self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet at the 2024 London Book Fair. The book publishing trade fair will take place on March 12-14, 2024, at the Olympia London, Hammersmith Rd, London W14 8UX, United Kingdom.

The Author’s evocative poems provide a unique glimpse into the human psyche as it encounters the awe and fear of scaling majestic heights. “Reflections on Mountaineering” delves into the intricate interplay of luck, fate, and chance in the challenging world of mountaineering. These Narrative-style poems are presented in various formats, including rhyme, blank verse, and structured prose (prose-poems). Viewed in their entirety, they constitute a “meditation” on the human perception of, inter alia, time’s passage as experienced during the course of climbing while in the trance-like state of mind known as “Flow.”

The Book also contains poems contending that the mountaineer’s age-old adage about the quest for “The Freedom of the Hills” is but an aspect of “The Pursuit of Happiness” that is proclaimed in the U.S. Declaration of Independence to be an “unalienable” right for which government is established to “protect.”

Drawing inspiration from personal experience and the journeys of fellow climbers, the Author’s eloquent collection weaves a rich tapestry born of both success and failure in the mountain environment Each poem invites readers to contemplate their responses to fear, marvel at the grandeur of the mountains, and ponder the intricacies of existence.

Further, the Author asserts through his poems that climbers infuse a mountain with human meaningfulness by the very act of climbing it, where there otherwise had been only rock, snow, and ice -- thereby performing the “ultimate Existential act” of creating something out of nothing through the force of the climber’s exercise of free will.

The insightful Addendum includes poems contemplating the limitations on the scope of “free will” as invoked by the doctrine of Existentialism, which must acknowledge that the exercise of free will is circumscribed by both “Nature” and “Nurture” -- that is, by one’s physical limitations, and by one’s cultural values and beliefs that have been instilled in one from birth.

In sum, Reflections on Mountaineering, is not just a literary endeavor but an expedition of the mind, encouraging readers to traverse the landscapes of introspection so as to find ultimate meaning in the climb.

For those seeking a captivating exploration of life’s peaks and valleys, “Reflections on Mountaineering: A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains” (Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded) (with Addendum) by Alan V. Goldman is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

For additional information, visit the Author’s fulsome Website at https://www.mountainreflections.art/.

Visit the ReadersMagnet exhibit at stand #6A90 at the 2024 London Book Fair to view the book’s display.

“Reflections on Mountaineering: A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains”
Author: Alan V. Goldman
Genre: Adventure, Natural World, Philosophy, Human Behavior while under duress
Publisher: Bookside Press
Published date: February 2024

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Alan V. Goldman is a graduate of Horace Mann School (1975); Harvard College (1979); and Harvard Law School (1982). He was elected to The Phi Bet Kappa Society in 1979. In addition to his avocation as an avid mountaineer, he practiced corporate litigation for many years and is now retired.

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