Author: HILLARY, EDMUND ET AL.
Title: Explorations Great Moments of Discovery from the Royal Geographic Society
Description: New York City, Artisan. 2002, 1st edition. Or. Wrappers. 4to, 340 pages, with beautiful illustrations in colour and black/white."Explorations" captures in photographs and interviews the expeditions and emotions of some of the most daring adventurers of the last century. Includes essays by Sir Edmund Hillary, Richard Leakey, Ranulph T-W-Fiennes, Wilfred Thesiger, Christina Dodwell, and John Hemming. Some of the pictures recall historic moments in time--Scott finding Amundsen's empty tent at the South Pole, Tenzing Norgay photographed by Hillary on the peak of Everest, the ferryman who took David Livingstone across the river on the last day of his life. Other pictures are remarkable as records of vanished or vanishing peoples, or simply as beautiful pieces of art.Exciting, heavy book, very suitable as a present. AS NEW.

Keywords: Geographic Society/Travel/Photography/Ethnography


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