The Springs of Enchantment. Climbing and Exploration in Patagonia

London England: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1981. Hardback. First Edition. The Springs of Enchantment. Shelf wear to edge of D/J. Small tear to bottom corner of D/J. Sunned spine to D/J. Patagonia has been well chronicled of late, but the one man whose classic explorations first opened up this remote wild region to the imagination was Eric Shipton, who celebrated the area in his book, Land of Tempest. John Earle was fortunate enought to accompany Shipton on an expedition in 1963 which forged a route to and all round the loon seen, but never before approached. Mount Burney, and later achieved the first ascents of Monte Bove and Monte Frances in the Darwin Range of Tierra del Fuego. In the temperate jungle below these unmapped peaks Shipton reckoned he and his small party were more out on a limb than in most parts of the Himalayas. Memories of 1963 form the varied meat of the first part of John Earle's book, observed with the sharp eye for colour and detail of a professional freelance film-maker. He also offers an uniqueily affectionare picture of what it was like to go on an expedition with that original light traveller, Eric Shipton, who wondered engagingly whether anyone had though to bring a tent as the plane took off from London airport. And he broods on the social hazards of expedition life, which seem especially relevant when he comes on the second part of his narrative and an account of another expedition sixteen years on in 1979. Illustrated. 191 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.