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Used-Good. Good hardback in Good dustjacket. 1st edition, 1956. No inscriptions or annotations; page fore-edge lightly foxed; binding tight; dust jacket slightly worn at edges.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Copy in green cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Jacket lightly chipped at head of spine and small closed tear at head of lower jacket cover. Maps as front and rear end papers. Free of inscriptions. Clean texrt with b/w plates.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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VG+ in VG jacket. VG+/VG. 8vo. original brown cloth gilt (inscrip. to verso FFE, a few marks) in dustwrapper (edges rubbed and a little frayed, tiny chipping at spine ends); pp. 352, addendum slip tipped in at rear, with 24 illustrations, 6 maps and an endpaper map. Heavy item (1.1 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy. [Neate U02]. A revised edition of the author's earlier book 'High Conquest'.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. An account of the world's great mountains and of the men who climbed them. With a chapter on British Mountains by W. H. Murray. Black and white photographs. First British edition. Hint of foxing to edges, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An attractive, well preserved copy.
This book was great - James Ramsey Ullman is a fantastic writer.
timmi
Mar 28, 2008
Old School Armchair Mountaineering
This title is the companion to another book by Ullman, High Conquest, The Story of Mountaineering. Both books are a good read, and they tell the story of the early days of mountain climbing, long before Gore-Tex, high tech, super lightweight equipment, cell phones, and GPS could be found in the modern climbers rucksack. The equipment available in those days was heavy, cumbersome, and often dubious in it's usefulness. Climbers made do with what they had then, and passionately threw themselves into their craft. Sometimes I felt like Ullman's writing style seemed a bit simplistic. Others might just see it as plain spoken. Either way, The Age of Mountaineering is a good book to curl up with on the sofa with a cup of tea or a snifter of brandy, maybe have a fire in the fireplace. You'll find yourself in an earlier time, in very high places, dodging falling rocks and avoiding avalanches, trying to find your way around that next ledge system or scrambling up an overhanging chimney, and always, always looking to the summit. You'll read how people endured cold, fear, incredible hardship, and sometimes death, to find a few moments of triumph on a mountain summit. Then, as now, people climbed for different reasons, and you'll find some interesting, colorful characters, as well as rather more unsavory ones too. Mr Ullman will take you climbing all over the world. from the French Alps where the sport of mountaineering was born, to the Andes in South America, North America, Africa, and of course, the big boys- The Himalya. Both books are rather easy to find, fairly inexpensive, and definitely worth the $5 or $10 bucks asked by the vendors here. If you like armchair mountaineering, I think you will enjoy these classic stories.