The Ascent of Everest
de John Hunt
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Bien/good
- Librería
-
Benson, Vermont, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Third printing of January, 1954 after the first of November, 1953. Light shelf wear to the book which is cocked; more to the tips, corners, and edges of the jacket which has four closed tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Born in the Himalayan town of Simla in 1910 Hunt took up mountaineering as a youngster in the Alps. Posted back to India at the age of twenty-one he took part in several Himalayan expeditions through the 1930's and during the post war period. Under his leadership Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit. He and Hillary were made knights in one of Queen Elizabeth's first acts on monarch. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!
Sinopsis
From the book: 'This is the story of how, on 29 May, 1953, two men, both endowed with outstanding stamina and skill, reached the top of Everest and came back unscathed to rejoin their comrades. 'Yet this will not be the whole story, for the ascent of Everest was not the work of one day, nor even of those few anxious, unforgettable weeks in which we prepared and climbed this summer. It is, in fact, a tale of sustained and tenacious endeavour by many, over a long period of time.'
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Detalles
- Librería
- The Book Shed
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 2003530
- Título
- The Ascent of Everest
- Autor
- John Hunt
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1953
- Palabras clave
- Mountaineering Mountain Climbing
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Travel & Adventure;
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
