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STORTI, CRAIG: : The Hunt for Mount Everest

LONDON.JOHN MURRAY (PUBLISHERS),2021.

ISBN 9781529331530.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] NMINT/NMINT. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,part matt, part glossy,wrap-around montaged colour pictorial artwork paintings/illustrations by Joe Wilson,illustrated dw/dj with red+tan glossy lettering to front+spine/backstrip,and glossy red lettering and other black+grey lettered critics' reviews rear panel respectively; and all with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – pristine,unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain pale beige cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked glossy dark brown lettering and a small silhouetted illustration to foot of spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean plain white sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,3-301pp [paginated] includes a Prologue, 6 chapters,an Epilogue,8pp contemporary b/w portrait,biographical and scenic photographs in 1 block,between pp144/5,Acknowledgements,Picture credits,Notes,a Bibliography and Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title with list of author's other works to verso,title page,a dedication with blank verso,contents list/table,3 double-page b/w regional route maps,an epigram (George Mallory) with a blank verso,individual Prologue and chapter separator pages,each with either single or multiple epigraphs to each verso,and 2pp blanks at rear of the book. In the centenary year of the first Everest expedition,the breathtaking story of how the mountain was found. The legend of Everest begins,in most accounts, with the first british expedition of 1921.And yet the quest to identify,measure and - at last - set foot on Everest was itself a remarkable feat.'The Hunt for Mount Everest' ends where the popular legend begins: it is the seldom-told account of all that happened before. The height of Mt. Everest was first measured in 1850,but the closest any Westerner got to Everest during the next seventy-one years,was 40 miles.It is a story that traverses the Alps,th Himalayas,Nepal and Tibet,the British Raj,the Anglo-Russian 'Great Game',the disastrous First Afghan War and the phenomenal Survey of India.A tale of high drama.its prize attracted larger-than-life characters - George Everest,Francis Younghusband,George Mallory,Lord Curzon,Edward Whymper - and a few quiet heroes: Alexander Kellas,the 13th Dalai Lama,and Charles Bell.It drew together spies,adventurers,renegades, hundreds of mules,camels,bullocks,yaks and two zebrules. Craig Storti uncovers the fascinating and still largely overlooked saga of all that led up to that moment in late June of 1921 when two English climbers,George Mallory and Guy Bullock, became the first westerners - and almost certainly the first human beings - to set foot on Mount. Everest and thereby claimed the last remaining major prize in the history of exploration. With 2021 bringing the 100th anniversary of that year,most Everest chronicles have dealt with the climbing history of the mountain,with all that happened after 1921.This book now tells the fascinating and overlooked sagas of exploration,engineering,diplomacy,daring, persistence and even conflict that made it possible for Mallory and Bullock to claim the last remaining prize in the history of exploration. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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