About this title: Charles Howard-Bury led the first official reconnaisance expedition to Everest in 1921. This is the account of that journey with George Mallory and others to investigate approaches to the world's highest and until then largely inaccessible mountain.
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Description: Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Edition: First Edition Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London
Date Published: (1991)
ISBN-13:9780340556023ISBN:0340556021
Description: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0340556021. No signatures. No tears or chips to dust wrapper. Minor rubbing to edges of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover.; 254 pages including 2 full page maps + plates. Blue papered boards with gilt lettering on spine. This work was originally published in 1922. This new 1991 edition has 17 pages of previously unpublished extracts from the diary of Charles Howard-Bury, which includes accounts of the ... read more
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