High in the Thin Cold Air. [The Story of the Himalayan Expedition led by Sir Edmund Hillary sponsored by World Book Encyclopedia]. [First UK Edition]. FIRST UK EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by HILLARY Edmund
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton,, [1963]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps coloured in outline; original grey tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in red, fore-edge lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The story of the Himalayan Scientific and Mountaineering Expedition 1960-61, which includes a search for the yeti and an attempt on Makalu. Published a year after the US edition. Neate 371.
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- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37736
- Title
- High in the Thin Cold Air. [The Story of the Himalayan Expedition led by Sir Edmund Hillary sponsored by World Book Encyclopedia]. [First UK Edition]. FIRST UK EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- HILLARY Edmund
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton,
- Date Published
- [1963]
- Keywords
- mountaineering, climbing, himalayas, edmund hillary, desmond doig, makalu, yeti, desmond doig
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