The First Ascent Of Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand, And A Holiday Jaunt To Mounts Ruapehu, Tongariro, And Ngauruhoe

[Beetham, George]

Verlag: Harrison and Sons, London, 1926

Beschreibung

No signatures. A little rubbing to margins of boards.; 40 pages + frontispiece + 1 plate. Original grey-green cloth boards with black lettering on front board. Page dimensions: 208mm x 163mm. "Privately Printed." Mountaineering, New Zealand. Account of the first ascent of Ruapehu, in 1879, by George Beetham, M.H.R., and J. P. Maxwell. Also an account by Frances A. Beetham (wife of George Beetham) of an 1892 trip by their party to the three peaks, taken from a letter to her father. This account includes a description of canoeing on the Wanganui River. With an Introduction by T. E. Donne. "These two mountains [Tongariro and Ngauruhoe] were regarded by the Maori as being particularly sacred, and access to them was denied to the white man for many years after his advent to New Zealand. The late J. C. Bidwill is said to have been the first European to ascend Ngauruhoe, on the second of March, 1839. He was accompanied by two Maoris who had come with him from Tauranga; the mountain was alive, and they were terrified at the rumblings and noises, but more particularly of its evil reputation, anddeclined to go nearer than a mile from its summit." - from the Introduction, page 5. "The Rhine, taking away its castles, is not to be compared for beauty with the Wanganui and its wooded heights and tree ferns coming down to the water's edge, the high gorges and steep rocky slopes clothed in ferns and mosses. We went to see our canoe next morning and found Hakiaha dead drunk under the trees at 8 a.m." - page 36. [Bibliographical references: Bagnall B571; Neate B75 - "Ascents of volcanoes in North Island."]. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 19220

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The First Ascent Of Mount Ruapehu, New ...

Verlag: Harrison and Sons, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1926

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket

Auflage: First Edition.