Roof Climbers Guide to Trinity

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  • Publisher: Oleander Press
  • Catalogue: 184236
  • Size: 13x19.5cm
The Roof Climber’s Guide to Trinity, written by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, was first published in 1900 and has the dual claim to fame of both almost instantaneously disappearing from print and achieving a near legendary status as the first-known documentation of the extreme sport now known as buildering.

Encompassing both the technical and romantic perspectives of scaling the heights of Cambridge’s Trinity roofscape in the late Victorian era, Winthrop-Young chaperones the reader on nocturnal explorations and provides a stegophilic blueprint to the battlements, turrets and parapets of one of the country’s most venerable institutions.