Fear, Ranulph Fiennes
Fear, Ranulph Fiennes
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Author: Ranulph Fiennes

Narrator: Ranulph Fiennes

Unabridged: 12 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/06/2016

Synopsis

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 and 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 outcome of a great event. He shows us how the brain perceives fear, how that manifests itself in us, and how we can transform our perceptions.

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

About Ranulph Fiennes

Sir Ranulph Fiennes was the first man to reach both poles by surface travel and the first to cross the Antarctic Continent unsupported. In the 1960s he was removed from the SAS Regiment for misuse of explosives but, joining the army of the Sultan of Oman, received that country's Bravery Medal on active service in 1971. He is the only person yet to have been awarded two clasps to the Polar medal for both Antarctic and the Arctic regions. Fiennes has led over 30 expeditions including the first polar circumnavigation of the Earth, and in 2003 he ran seven marathons in seven days on seven continents in aid of the British Heart Foundation.In 1993 Her Majesty the Queen awarded Fiennes the Order of the British Empire (OBE) because, on the way to breaking records, he has raised over £14 million for charity. He was named Best Sportsman in the 2007 ITV Great Briton Awards and in 2009 he became the oldest Briton to reach the summit of Everest.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tariq on February 08, 2017

If like me you are expecting how to cope with fear, than you might struggle a bit, because the book is true to its title, it lists fears of various types and its effects on humans. What the book lacks any suggestions on how to actually deal with fear.......more

Goodreads review by Owen on August 27, 2020

Listened to the audiobook. I found this book very interesting to listen to, particularly not having read anything by Fiennes before. It's a series of personal and historical anecdotes analysing situations in which fear has been the overwhelming theme, and the extremes situations within which one coul......more

Goodreads review by Faisel on September 23, 2017

Voted BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, Fiennes gets close and personal as he shares his own personal experiences about fear and those of others that make this an interesting read. Part intriguing, part terrifying, by venturing into London 7/7, Nazism, street gangs, and mass murder to name a few, it cha......more

Goodreads review by Bernard on January 25, 2023

Was an interesting read, and Sir Fiennes definitely is more than qualified to write about fearsome experiences. But the book is literally a random collection of his own adventures and stories related to whatever fear the chapter is presenting. It's like he googled each type of fear and put in the fi......more

Goodreads review by Shaylee on September 08, 2023

It started off with some phobias about insects and I thought, okay, dealing with phobias, this will be cool. We then journeyed in 76 different directions with stories from every topic imaginable. His life accomplishments sound amazing but honestly, I don’t know if it’s just the way it was written, b......more

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