Recent reviews of James Crowden’s books
The Frozen River – Marshwood Vale Magazine
February 28, 2020
The story of how Somerset author and poet, James Crowden, travelled up the Frozen River in the Northern Himalaya is the subject of a new book. Robert Twigger has travelled…
How a West Country boy lived to tell tale of icy adventure – Western Daily Press
January 23, 2020
He sought silence, solitude and a tremendous challenge in the winter snows of the high Himalaya and now poet James Crowden draws us into that life-changing world in his terrific…
How a Dartmoor-born boy tackled an icy mountain challenge – Western Morning News
January 18, 2020
An adventure that was undertaken by a man of the Westcountry on the other side of the world has Martin Hesp enthralled. John Buchan of 39 Steps fame once wrote…
Mark Cocker on The Frozen River
January 10, 2020
"I have seldom read a travel book where the narrator is so absent. Instead, he acts as a transparent lens that gathers all that fierce Zanskari winter light and illuminates…