EXPLORATIONS Great Moments of Discovery from the Royal Geographic Society
by HILLARY, EDMUND ET AL
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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About This Item
New York City: Artisan, 2002. 340 pages, with beautiful illustrations in colour and black/white."Explorations" captures in photographs and interviews the expeditions and emotions of some of the most daring adventurers of the last century. Includes essays by Sir Edmund Hillary, Richard Leakey, Ranulph T-W-Fiennes, Wilfred Thesiger, Christina Dodwell, and John Hemming. Some of the pictures recall historic moments in time--Scott finding Amundsen's empty tent at the South Pole, Tenzing Norgay photographed by Hillary on the peak of Everest, the ferryman who took David Livingstone across the river on the last day of his life. Other pictures are remarkable as records of vanished or vanishing peoples, or simply as beautiful pieces of art.Exciting, heavy book, very suitable as a present. AS NEW. . 1st edition. Or. Wrappers. 4to.
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- Bookseller
- Antiquariaat Jacob E. van Ruller (NL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6590
- Title
- EXPLORATIONS Great Moments of Discovery from the Royal Geographic Society
- Author
- HILLARY, EDMUND ET AL
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Artisan
- Place of Publication
- New York City
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Geographic Society/Travel/Photography/Ethnography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel/Voyage/Reizen;
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About the Seller
Antiquariaat Jacob E. van Ruller
Biblio member since 2007
Amsterdam
About Antiquariaat Jacob E. van Ruller
Antiquarian bookseller in Amsterdam since 1990. Specializing in documentary material related to 20th century European history in the Interbellum, World War II, Weimar Republic and Third Reich
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...