text The hunt for Mount Everest
- Summary
- The height of Mt. Everest was first measured in 1850, but the closest any westerner got to Everest during the next 71 years, until 1921, was 40 miles. The Hunt for Mt. Everest tells the story of the 71-year quest to find the world's highest mounta... Read more
- Contents
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Prologue: 'I could stand it no longer' -- Peak XV -- 'Nature's rough productions' -- 'An absurd response to a ragbag of rumours" -- 'Close quarters' -- 'A party of Sahibs are coming' -- 'With nothing in between' -- Epilogue: 'The col of our desires'.
- Format
- text
- Description
- 301 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Publisher
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing, imprints of John Murray Press, an Hachette UK Company 2021
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 796.522 STO in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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| TADL-WOOD | 796.522 STO in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 796.522 STO in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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