Search Results: Titles starting with I from Barking Mad Books

ICE BOUND HEIGHTS OF THE MUSTAGH Fanny Bullock Workman & William Hunter Workman, Archibald Constable & Co, London, 1908. First edition. 444 page hardback, nicely rebound in grey cloth with gilt titles, no library markings, 170 illustrations, some coloured, some full-page, including 3 photogravure portraits - two with minor water stain, 2 large folding maps in rear, fep missing & binding loose, Account of the authors' 1902-3 expedition in the Baltistan Himalayas. They explored the Chogo Lungma Glacier and later reached the Nushik La from the Hoh Lumba Glacier. All the impressive illustrations are from the authors own photographs. Mrs Workman established a new world height record for women (c.23,000 ft) when she climbed the Pinnacle Peak during a later expedition in 1906. She was aged 47 - Scarce.
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ICY HERITAGE - David Harrowfield, Historic sites of the Ross Sea Region, Antarctic Heritage Trust, 88 page softbound, 1995, signed by the author to the title page - hard to find THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

IN FORBIDDEN CHINA, Vicomte D'Ollone, Fisher Unwin, London, 1912, 2nd imp, original decorated cloth VG, 306 page hardback, internal foxing, B&W plates, fold-out map, Account of famous French expedition through China, Mongolia and Tibet... I. From Hanoi to Sze-Chuan II. The Country of the Independent Lolos. III. In the Heart of the "Great Cold Mountains". IV. The last of the Independent Territory. V. Lolos and Miao-tze. VII. Round the Lolo Territory. VIII. The Gate of Tibet. Rock-Sculptures. IX. The Tibetan Borderland. X. Entering Tibet. XI. Crossing the "Land of Grass". XII. Attacked by the Tibetans. Lhabrang. XIII. From Tibet into Mongolia. The Dalai-Lama. Pekin. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

IN HIGH PLACES - Dougal Haston - Cassell, London, 1st Edn., 1972, VG+ dustjacket, original VG+ original pale blue cloth hardback, - Hardman Scottish climber Haston's autobiography - Eiger Direct, Cerro Torre, Annapurna South face, Everest SW face Dougal Haston.
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IN LOTUS LAND JAPAN - Herbert Ponting, Dent & sons, London, 1911, 2nd impression, original red boards, gilt titles and embossed design on front board, minor shelf wear. A lovely travelogue through Japan with very carefully set-up B&W images - technically brilliant, eight hand-tinted colour plates with tissue guards.
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IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND - SAVAGE LANDOR Henry SAVAGE LANDOR, 1st single volume edition - Heinemann, London, 1899, VG+ fold-out colour map, numerous plates and superb paintings by Savage Landor - a lovely copy with a richly decorated cover with gilt titles - An Account of a Journey in Tibet. Capture by the Tibetan Authorities; Imprisonment, Torture and Ultimate Release - THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE INDIAN ALPS AND HOW WE CROSSED THEM BY A LADY PIONEER, Nina Mazuchelli 1st edn., Logman's Green, London, 1876, expertly recased with original spine, original red cloth with gilt decoration, gilt titles, large fold-out map of Eastern Nepal, beautiful colour plates, B&W sketches throughout, Married to an English army chaplain, Nina Mazuchelli set out from her home in Darjeeling accompanied by the local District Officer to explore the Eastern glaciers of the Himalayas. Although provisioned with every conceivable comfort from bedsteads to a dinner service, they were not prepared for the rigorous conditions and were forced to abandon their expedition. The author was carried throughout by bearers - a beautiful copy of a very scarce book.
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INTO THE FROZEN SOUTH - Scout Marr of the Quest expedition, 1923 1st edn., Cassell and Co., London, 245 page hardback, original green cloth with gilt title, covers Vg - one sl wear mark on spine, decoration on front board, B&W plates, endpaper with section cut - written by James Marr, the Boy Scout who voyaged on Quest with Shackleton and Wild...an insight to the voyage on which Shackleton died in Grytviken, South Georgia. Marr went on to have a significant polar career. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

INTO THIN AIR - JON KRAKAUER, Villard, New York, 1st USA edn., VG+ 291 page hardback, VG+ jacket - a first-hand deeply personal though highly controversial account of the 1996 disaster on Everest - This copy signed to title page by Jon Krakauer and on half title page by Ed Viesturs, first American to climb all 14 x 8000m peaks (without supplementary oxygen )