AN INNOCENT ON EVEREST

Izzard, Ralph

Verlag: E.P. Dutton, New York, NY, 1954

Beschreibung

Stated First Edition. Text/Bright, clean, As New. Bi-color marbelized boards/VG; strong & sound w/small pushes to lower corners, & discoloration to edges. DJ/Good; w/faint creasing & losses to edges; under mylar. Superb travelogue. Anthology of essays, some news reports, by correspondent of the London Daily Mail Ralph Izzard, on exploratory trips into Himalayan country, prior to the arrival of the advance party of the official British Mount Everest Expedition of 1953, with a concluding essay written after Everest was conquered. The 11 chapters are: I, That Mountain; II, Nepal; III, Nepal Again; IV, To Work; V, My Own Preparations; VI, I Set Off; VII, Namche Bazar, the Sherpa Capital; VIII, Advance to Everest & Retreat; IX, That Abominable Snow Man; X. Return to Katmandu; and, XI, Climaz. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007618

Bibliografische Details

Titel: AN INNOCENT ON EVEREST

Verlag: E.P. Dutton, New York, NY

Erscheinungsdatum: 1954

Einband: Hard Cover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good

Auflage: First Edition, First Thus