With Axe and Rope in the New Zealand Alps - Couverture souple

Mannering, George Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3743418835 ISBN 13 : 9783743418837

Editeur : Hansebooks, 2016

Synopsis

With Axe and Rope in the New Zealand Alps is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Tins short work contains the story of five seasons climbing and exploring in the New Zealand A lps. Most of the material embodied in it has already appeared from time to time, in rather a different form, in the Christchurch (N.Z.) Weekly Press. The author trusts that the publication of the same in book form, together with a map of the locality and a few photographic reproductions, will supply a want in the shape of a guide-book to the Alpine mountain district which is already beginning to be felt by tourists in New Zealand; and he hopes that the contents may not prove uninteresting to the general public, more especially to Swiss and Caucasian climbers, few of whom are perhaps aware of the extent and nature of the New Zealand Alpine chain. The map is compiled by the New Zealand Government Survey Office from the work of Mr. T. N. Brodrick. Government Survejor, and that of Dr. E. von Lendenfeld. The illustrations are from photographs by Messrs. Wheeler andS
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hansebooks
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3743418835
• ISBN 13: 9783743418837
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 214
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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