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Mount Everest (Folded Map)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., National Geographic Society: 1988

Seller ID: 2280315

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light stain along edges. 1988 Soft Cover. Folded map. Two-sided map. Close-up of mountain and perspective within local area of Himalayan mountain range.
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Everest: Triumph and Tragedy on the World's Highest Peak

By: Dickinson, Matt

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 2002

Seller ID: 2265846

ISBN: 0060188065

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No jacket. 2002 Large Hardcover. 31 pp. Readers can chart a route on an early map of Everest, hold a Tibetan prayer flag like the ones generations of mountaineers have left at Everest's summit, and examine a dossier (complete with survival tips) for commercial clients attempting to climb the mountain. The prewar attempts, the dangerous conditions, the recent discovery of longlost climber George Mallory's body are featured, along with the history of the mountain, its geography, and the myths and legends which surround it.
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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

By: Eichar, Donnie; Gabel, J. C.; Jacobs, Nova

Price: $35.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Chronicle Books: 2013

Seller ID: 2304263

ISBN: 1452112746

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Two inch tear on jacket rear panel previously mended with tape. 2013 Hard Cover. 288 pp. In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incidentunexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clotheshave led to decades of speculation over what really happened.
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The Wildest Dream: Mallory - His Life and Conflicting Passions

By: Gillman, Peter & Leni

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Headline: 2000

Seller ID: 2267113

ISBN: 074727150X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine slightly faded. 2000 Hard Cover. xiv, 306 pp. 8vo. A biography of the famous mountain climber, drawing on a wealth of new material. Biographies don't get any better than this. Supremely well researched and documented, erudite, and masterfully written, this book isn't so much about what happened to Mallory in 1924 when he and his climbing partner Irvine disappeared in the mists of Mt. Everest, but rather it seeks the answer to another, almost more fascinating question: who was this man Mallory? This is the book to read to find the answer.
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The Wonder Book of the Wild: The Romance of Exploration and Big Game Stalking

By: Golding, Harry

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited: 1930

Seller ID: 1898469

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Fourth edition, circa 1930. Very good copy in well worn jacket. Pencil name & address on front endpaper, gift note and ink stamp on front blank, board edges rubbed, jacket edges heavily worn with loss from corners, split down jacket spine - looks alright under mylar. Fair. 256 pp. Red cloth spine, pictorial paper over boards - color picture plate mounted on front board matches jacket art. Includes 8 color plates and over two hundred two-tone illustrations, many from photographs. A collection of adventure and exploration writing by various authors. Includes: the Antarctic adventures of Rear-Adm...
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The Sacred Mountains

By: Headley, J.T.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1864

Seller ID: 2266163

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Civil War era reprint. Light stain along page-base, book plate on front paste-down endpaper. 1864 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 175 pp. A study of the sacred mountains of the Bible. CONTENTS: Mount Ararat; Mount Moriah; Mount Hor; Mount Pisgah; Mount Horeb; Mount Carmel; Mount Lebanon; Mount Zion; Mount Tabor; Mount of Olives; Mount Calvary; The Mount of God.
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Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (From the Expedition That Discovered Mallory's Body)

By: Hemmleb, Jochen; Johnson, Larry A.; Simonson, Eric R.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Seattle, WA, The Mountaineers Books: 1999

Seller ID: 2201168

ISBN: 0898866995

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Pages faintly toned. 1999 Large Hardcover. 205 pp. Unravels one of the most puzzling and compelling adventure mysteries of all time. On June 6, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Comyn Irvine were only a few hundred feet short of becoming the first men to reach the highest spot on earth when they simply walked into the mist, never to be seen again. Did they reach the summit of Mount Everest - nearly three decades before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? This is the meticulous report of both the 1924 British Expedition and the 1999 Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition which f...
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Five Miles High: The Thrilling True Story of the First American Expedition to K2

By: Houston, Charles S.; Bates, Robert H.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ., Lyons Press: 2000

Seller ID: 2125149

ISBN: 1585740519

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First paperback printing. Remainder mark on page base. 2000 Trade Paperback. xv, 381 pp. The epic account of the 1938 American expedition to the summit of K2. CONTENTS: Introduction: Randy Wayne White; The Idea: Charles S. Houston, M.D.; Geographical and Historical: Richard L. Burdsall; Biscuits and Boots: Charles S. Houston, M.D.; Into Kashmir: Robert H. Bates; Over the Zoji La: Robert H. Bates; The Indus Trail: Robert H. Bates; To the Last Village: Robert H. Bates; K2 at Last: Robert H. Bates; Preliminary Reconnaissance: William P. House; Up the Godwin-Austen Glacier: William P. House; The A...
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The Ascent of Everest

By: Hunt, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Seattle, Washington, The Mountaineers: 1993

Seller ID: 2265868

ISBN: 0898863619

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1993 reissue of 1953 original. Remainder mark, light stain to page-base. xvi, 280 pp. Hunt gives a detailed account of his 1953 ascent to the summit discussing planning and preparation, the motivations behind the attempt, and factors that contributed to the two mens' success.
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An Innocent on Everest

By: Izzard, Ralph

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1954

Seller ID: 2204133

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. A very nice copy. Quarter inch chip to top edge of jacket spine and to top edge of jacket, a few minor chips to jacket edges. 1954 Hard Cover. 319 pp. For readers of the mountain-climbing fraternity- and circumstances have proved their number to be large- this will be classed as only secondarily a mountain climbing book, for Izzard, while compassing a difficult ascent reached what he calls the foot of Everest and then turned back to sit it out at Katmandu. But other readers who demand less of the mountain aspects and more of straight travelogue, will enjoy the greater part of th...
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Descent: A Novel

By: Johnston, Tim

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 2015

Seller ID: 2269889

ISBN: 161620477X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Ink initials on blurb page. 2015 Trade Paperback. 387 pp. The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, who are taking a family vacation before their daughter leaves for college. But when Caitlin and her younger brother, Sean, go out for an early morning run and only Sean returns, the mountains become as terrifying as they are majestic. Written with a precision that captures every emotion, every moment of fear, as each member of the family searches for answers, Descent races like an avalanche toward its heart-pounding conclusion.
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Appalachian Trail Stories and Other Adventures: Living Your Dreams at 60 and Beyond

By: Kimball, Emily

Price: $7.00

Publisher: ., Emily T. Kimball: 2013

Seller ID: 2295005

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by author with inscription, Happy adventures to you Alicia. Minor general wear. 2013 Trade Paperback. 56 pp. Emily Kimball is an adventurer and motivational speaker who provides entertaining presentations and workshops to challenge people to reassess their risk taking and inspire them to make their dreams happen. This book features nine stories from the author's thru-hike on the Appalachian Trail completed at age 70, hiking trips in the High Sierras at age 76, and an Elderhostel wilderness canoe trip on the Allagash River in Maine at age 78. Known as the Aging Adventurer, Ms. Kimball ov...
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The Opening of Tibet: An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year 1903-4

By: Landon, Percival; Colonel Younghusband (Introduction)

Price: $80.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Co.: 1905

Seller ID: 1996828

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Faint stain on top margin of small section of pages, rear endpapers faintly foxed. 1905 Hard Cover. xv, 484 pp. Tall 8vo. Original green cloth with blind-stamped swastika & single rule border on front panel, gilt spine titles & top page ridge. Tipped in color frontispiece, black & white photographic plates throughout. An account of British India's armed expedition to Tibet, designed to effect trade and establish diplomacy, during which British forces subjugated the Tibetans, though this led to few long-term benefits.
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The Madman of Mount Everest (A Barry Ross International Mystery)

By: Livesay, Ann

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Medford, Oregon, Silver River Books: 2000

Seller ID: 2269171

ISBN: 0966281721

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A paperback original. Faint smudge to top page ridge. 2000 Trade Paperback. 296 pp. A madman, convinced that Buddhism is a heathen religion, sets out to destroy the sanctity of the religion and its most visited sites. Murders at a monastery at the foot of Mount Everest and at the largest Buddhist stupa in Indonesia scare tourists away from these inspiring sites. International investigator Barry Ross is on the case, following the murderer through the Himalayas. This fast-paced mystery allows an in-depth look at Indonesian arts, Nepalese customs, and Buddhism, with the morning mis...
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In the World's Attic

By: Merrick, Henrietta Sands; Younghusband, Francis (Introduction)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press: 1931

Seller ID: 2305330

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Includes fold-out map. A few faint spots on front board, ink stamp and brief note on when book was read on front flyleaf. 1931 Hard Cover. xxii, 259 pp. 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt titles. Illustrated with color plates. An account of the author's travels in the Himalayan mountains in the early 20th century, when this part of the world was largely unknown to western adventurers. Following the text is a four-panel fold-out map of the author's route from India to Tibet.
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Over the Himalaya

By: Ohmori, Koichiro; Wickwire, Jim

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Seattle, Washington, Cloudcap: 1994

Seller ID: 2265845

ISBN: 0938567373

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No jacket, pages faintly toned. 1994 Large Hardcover. 45 color photos, maps. The most thorough set of Himalayan aerial photos ever published. A custom-made wide-angle camera recorded views of the Nepal Himalaya.
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James Jackson Putnam and Psychoanalysis: Letters between Putnam and Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, William James, Sandor Ferenczi, and Morton Prince, 1877-1917 (A Commonwealth Fund Book)

By: Putnam, James Jackson; Freud, Sigmund; Jones, Ernest; James, William; Ferenczi, Sandor; Prince, Morton; Hale, Nathan G., Jr.; Heller, Judith Bernays

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press: 1971

Seller ID: 2304583

ISBN: 0674471709

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed. Top page ridge lightly foxed. 1971 Hard Cover. xiv, 384 pp. James Jackson Putnam was an established sixty-three-year-old Boston physician and Harvard professor of neurology when he and William James traveled to Clark University to hear Sigmund Freud's lectures on psychoanalysis. Putnam had become interested in psychoanalytic theory three years earlier in 1906; and, in 1908, his interest had been renewed when he met Freud's first English-speaking follower, twenty-eight-year-old Ernest Jones. It still surprised and even disturbed his friends, however, when P...
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To the Last Breath: A Memoir of Going to Extremes

By: Slakey, Francis

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2012

Seller ID: 2267549

ISBN: 1439198950

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 2012 Hard Cover. 252 pp. A journey to the most extreme points on Earth and deep inside the human spirit. Before Georgetown physics professor Francis Slakey set out to climb the highest mountain on every continent and surf every ocean, he had shut himself off from other people. His lectures were mechanical; his relationships were little more than ways to fill the evenings. But as his journey veered dangerously off course, everything about him began to change. A gripping adventure of the body and mind, To the Last Breath depicts the quest that leads Slakey around...
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Mountains: Masterworks of the Living Earth

By: Tapponnier, Paul

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ., Abrams: 2006

Seller ID: 2203541

ISBN: 0810930838

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition. An exceptional copy. 2006 Large Hardcover. Keepers of legend and witness to natures greatest movement, mountains are regarded with awe and admiration by every culture that has these staggering wonders in its midst. In this stunning book, a geologist and a nature photographer provide a tour of the worlds most spectacular mountain ranges, revealing their fascinating scientific origins and tracing their natural histories. Studying closely the young mountains found in the Himalayas and Andes ranges, and explaining how ranges like the Rockies are dying, the books incisive text reveal...
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Scrambles Amongst the Alps: In the Years, 1860-1869 (National Geographic Adventure Classics)

By: Whymper, Edward; Brandt, Anthony

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., National Geographic Adventure Classics: 2002

Seller ID: 2265869

ISBN: 0792269233

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

2002 reissue of 1871 original. A very nice copy. xvii, 414 pp. When he first saw the Alps in 1860, Edward Whymper was a 20-year-old English wood engraver whose dream was to become an arctic explorer. Ambitious and hungry for adventure, he fell in love with the challenge the Alps presented and set out to conquer them peak by peak. Whymper made quick work of the challenge, racking up dozens of first ascents and acquiring a reputation as one of the best in the nascent field of mountaineering. But on the Matterhorn, considered to be mountaineering's Holy Grail at the time, Whymper met with failure...
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Scrambles amongst the Alps, and Down the Rhine

By: Whymper, Edward; Murphy, Blanche

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co.: 1890

Seller ID: 2280372

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Rear board and edges stained, all silver from front board decoration rubbed away. 1890 Hard Cover. Two books in one volume: 164; 75, [1] pp. Brown cloth, silver & gilt titles & decorations, gilt page ridges. Whymper's narrative details attempts to scale the Matterhorn and other peaks in the Swiss Alps. Murphy's recounts a trip down the Rhine River, with descriptions and illustrations of various points of interest, including many notable examples of architecture (Heidelberg Castle, etc.). Numerous engravings throughout.
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