Nanda Devi
de Shipton, Eric
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Librería
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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Sobre este artículo
London: Hodder & Stoughton. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Some library labels and markings. Vertical crease to middle of spine. Some small 5mm tears and chips to cloth at head and tail of spine. Lacking the dust-jacket. ; First printing. xvi, 310 pages + frontispiece + 26 plates. Original black cloth boards with blue lettering on spine and front board. llustrated front endpaper. Page dimensions: 222 x 143mm. Captioned tissue guard present for all plates including frontispiece. Contents: Foreword by Hugh Ruttledge; Innocents from Nepal - and London; The Secret Shrine; The First Crossing of the Watershed (Badrinath-Gaumukh); The Second Crossing of the Watershed (Badrinath-Kedarnath); The Second Nanda Devi Venture. Illustrations: North Face of the East Peak of Nanda Devi; Angtharkay, Shipton, Passange, Tilman and Kusang; Alaknanda River above Joshimath; Landslip; Peaks of the Southern Rim of the Nanda Devi Basin from the "Sunderdhunga Col"; Passang, Kusang and Angtharkay; Forest-Clad Foot Hills; Nanda Ghunti from above the Wan Pass; Plane-Tabling; "The Curtain"; Negotiating a Difficult Bit in the Rishi Nala; Clearing Mist; Unnamed Peak on the Eastern Rim of the Nanda Devi Basin; On Broken Glacier; Twin Peaks of Nanda Devi from the Ice Plateau at the Head of the Great North Glacier; North Face of the Main Peak of Nanda Devi; Hindu Temple; Camp amongst the Glaciers; Peaks of the Watershed; Gaumukh (The Cow's Mouth). The Infant River Ganges issuing from the Ice of the Gangotri Glacier; Temple of Badrinath; Satopanth Peaks; Steep Ice; Himalayan Forest; The Men from Mana Smoking a Pipe; Glacier Tables; The South Side of the Twin Peaks. ; 8vo .
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Detalles
- Librería
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 21954
- Título
- Nanda Devi
- Autor
- Shipton, Eric
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1936
- Palabras clave
- Mountaineering Eric Shipton Himalayas Nanda Devi
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Sobre el vendedor
Renaissance Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
Sobre Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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