Men Against The Clouds The Conquest of Minya Konka

Burdsall,Richard and Arthur B Emmons

Verlag: John Lane The Bodkey Head, Birmingham, 1935

Beschreibung

This is a Very Good Copy of this book in original purple cloth boards with blue title lettering to spine,in the rare Dust-Jacket graded Good that has a few small chips and tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrappe.The outer boards are a little marked towards the head of spine.Not price clipped.This copy has No previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with No loose leaves.Illustrated profusely with a Frontispiece and a further 46 photographic illustrations with eight maps and charts including maps as endpapers.There are further contributions from Terris Moore and Jack Theodore Young.This copy has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and the dust-wrapper comes well protected in a removable cover sleeve.Very rare title in it's original dust-wrapper One of the great saga's of 20th century climbing began in 1930 when a rather eccentric globetrotter Joseph Rock surrveyed a remote stretch of mountains in Szechwan and declared the peak Minya Konka,the highest peak in the world with a height of over 30,000 feet.This claim needed to be verified,and the mountain needed to be climbed so then the book is the extraordinary tale of a small team of four climbers who reached the summit in 1932.With additional contributions by climbers Terris Moore and Jack Theodore Young.8vo 272pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [1935] Neate page 99 [134]. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 79864

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Men Against The Clouds The Conquest of Minya...

Verlag: John Lane The Bodkey Head, Birmingham

Erscheinungsdatum: 1935

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good

Auflage: First Edition