Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p William Ernest Bowman (30 September 1911 Scarborough - 1 January 1985), was an engineer and writer, best remembered for his 1956 book The Ascent of Rum Doodle, a satire on the world of mountaineering literature inspired by Bill Tilman and his 1937 account of the Nanda Devi expedition. Bowman's work was a send-up of the rather pompous British expedition book style fashionable in the 1930s through to the 1950s.Bill Bowman was the eldest of a family of three boys.. }
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- William_Ernest_Bowman comment "William Ernest Bowman (30 September 1911 Scarborough - 1 January 1985), was an engineer and writer, best remembered for his 1956 book The Ascent of Rum Doodle, a satire on the world of mountaineering literature inspired by Bill Tilman and his 1937 account of the Nanda Devi expedition. Bowman's work was a send-up of the rather pompous British expedition book style fashionable in the 1930s through to the 1950s.Bill Bowman was the eldest of a family of three boys.".