Author: RUSSELL Scott
Title: Mountain Prospect. [Foreword by Geoffrey Winthrop Young]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Chatto & Windus,, 1946. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece, 59 plates on 46 and 7 full-page maps in the text; original blue buckram, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-browned and chipped (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Written from a Japanese POW camp at Singapore, Russell's classic account records summer camps with New Zealand pioneer A.P.Harper, experiences in Jan Mayen and the Arctic, and an expedition to the Karakoram-Himalaya under Shipton. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Neate R98.

Keywords: sporting, climbing, mountaineering, mountains, scott russell, eric shipton, new zealand, jan mayen, himalaya, s. russell, sports, pastimes, mountaineering, mountain, prospect


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