SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 de Whymper, Edward - 1987

Fine. Softcover. ...; ...; Trade Paperback. Century Hutchinson, 1986. Fine Book. Aside from light edge wear, overall a clean and tight. Media mail packed in protective bubble lined shipping bags, Priority in a Flat Rate Envelope. Shipped quickly. Prompt response to questions. .

MP3 Audio CD. Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69 PART I. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. BEACHY HEAD. On the 23d of July, 1860, I started for my first tour in the Alps. As we steamed out into the Channel, Beachy Head came into view, and recalled a scramble of many years ago. With the impudence of ignorance, my brother and I, schoolboys both, had tried to scale that great chalk cliff. Not the head itself—where sea-birds circle, and where the flints are ranged so orderly in parallel lines—but at a place more to the east, where the pinnacle called the Devil’s Chimney had fallen down. Since that time we have been often in dangers of different kinds, but never have we more nearly broken our necks than upon that occasion. In Paris I made two ascents. The first to the seventh floor of a house in the Quartier Latin—to an artist friend, who was engaged, at the moment of my entry, in combat with a little Jew. He hurled him with great good-will and with considerable force… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69 PART I. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. BEACHY HEAD. On the 23d of July, 1860, I started for my first tour in the Alps. As we steamed out into the Channel, Beachy Head came into view, and recalled a scramble of many years ago. With the impudence of ignorance, my brother and I, schoolboys both, had tried to scale that great chalk cliff. Not the head itself—where sea-birds circle, and where the flints are ranged so orderly in parallel lines—but at a place more to the east, where the pinnacle called the Devil’s Chimney had fallen down. Since that time we have been often in dangers of different kinds, but never have we more nearly broken our necks than upon that occasion. In Paris I made two ascents. The first to the seventh floor of a house in the Quartier Latin—to an artist friend, who was engaged, at the moment of my entry, in combat with a little Jew. He hurled him with great good-will and with considerable force… Leer más

Ten Speed Press, reprinting of the 1871 edition 1981. Pbk 164pp b/w illustrns covers slightly shelfworn very good clean tight unmarked text

Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1908. 1908 circa. hardcover. 480pp, foxing to endpapers, cracking to front hinge, decorative front board, t.e.g.very light wear to top and bottom of spine, Good+. The most famous mountaineering book of all time. Includes accounts of the attempts and first ascent of the Matterhorn, as well as other ascents in the Alps.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Time-Life. Reprint.. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. xviii, 432 pages. Gold lettering on red backgrounds on the cover, gold lettering on the front cover. Very minimal wear to the book, it appears unread. A fine copy of facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1871, in the Classics of Exploration series. XVIII, with 90 illustrations in text, plus 5 folded maps (1 in colour) at end of book, and 21 b/w plates. Size: 6 x 8.5

Paperback. Very Good.

Time-Life, 1984. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. light usage evidence on the leather boards. reprint of the 1871 edition. gold gilt on all edges. excellent binding. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Thomas Nelson And Sons Book. Fair +. Hardcover. No jacket. blue cloth covers. Hinge ctacked in a few places. Previous owners inscription. 0.

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1913 nd. [c. 1913]. 16mo. original blue decorated cloth gilt, teg (cloth a little rubbed with trifling wear to extremities, upper hinge broken with loosening to frontispiece, prev. owners' names); pp. i-xiv, 15-480, with 8 illustrations. A good copy . [Neate W65: The most famous of all mountaineering books. Whymper was a young wood engraver who became obsessed with the first ascent of the Matterhorn. The price he had to pay for achieving this was the loss of his companions in the most celebrated mountain disaster of all time. His one other great expedition was in 1880 to the Andes of Ecuador. Although his writings and lecturing brought him success, his life may be said to have been ruined by the tragedy which followed his moment of triumph].. Reprint. Hard Cover. VG-/No Jacket.