Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939 The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part 4, Q-Z

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Lot 1276
  • 1276

Tilman, Harold William

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Description

  • The Ascent of Nanda Devi. Cambridge: University Press, 1937
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (220 x 134mm.), xii, [ii], 236pp., 2 maps, [1 folding], 43 photo illustrations on 35 plates, original light blue cloth, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, binding very slightly soiled

Literature

Yakushi (1994) T161a

Catalogue Note

"In the opinion of competent judges the achievement narrated in [The Ascent of Nanda Devi] is the finest mountain ascent yet made, either in the Himalaya or anywhere else. It so happens, that besides being very difficult, Nanda Devi is also the highest mountain that has yet been climbed to the top" (Foreword).