Author: BERG, PETER
Title: Whymper's Scrambles with a Camera: A Victorian Magic Lantern Show
Description: London : The Alpine Club, 2011.. COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR First edition, first printing IX + 138 p., b/w photographs,frontispiece portrait, maps, line drawings, bibliogr SOFTCOVER: (Orig. paper binding with double flaps. NEAR FINE) ¶ RARE. Whymper's ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, and the deaths of four members of his party on the way down, attracted attention throughout the world. The pictures in this book have mostly not been seen for 100 years and never been published as a set before.

Keywords: Europe Europa Switzerland Suisse mountaineering alpinism photography


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