Descent into Chaos: The Doomed Expedition to Low's Gully by Richard Connaughton - 1996-06

London: Brassey's. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (2010). First Edition. Hardcover. 1857531477 . Previous owner's name. A couple of 15mm tears at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; xiii, [1], 142 pages + 16 illustrations on 4 plate leaves. 3 full page maps within the pagination. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 232 x 151mm. "In early March 1994, five members of a British Army expedition emerged from Low's Gully, a five mile long hell hole falling away from Mount Kinabalu in the jungle of Borneo. However, the achievement of the five - mostly fit and able young British non-commissioned officers - in being the first to conquer Low's Gully was overshadowed by the fact that the other five members of their team - two relatively old and senior British officers and three young novice Chinese storemen and guards - were apparently still lost in the gully. What had gone wrong and why had the group broken the… Read More

London: Brassey's, 1996 F/F. 8vo. original blue boards gilt in dustwrapper; pp. xiv, 142, with 16 illustrations & 3 maps. A fine copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. F/F.

Brassey's (UK) Ltd, 1996-12-31. Hardcover. Very Good. 4.0609 in x 23.8579 in x 15.7360 in.