THE WHITE SPIDER: THE STORY OF THE NORTH FACE OF THE EIGER; Translated from the German by Hugh Merrick

Harrer, Heinrich (Translated by Hugh Merrick)

Edité par Rupert Hart-Davis, London, England, 1960

A propos de cet article

Octavo, 9.25 in.x 6.25 in., pp. 240. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs, and fold-out photo of The Eiger showing the route. Blue cloth boards with bright silver lettering to spine. Light staining and sunning to edges of boards. Previous owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. A couple chips along top edge of dustjacket; ink stain at top of dustjacket spine. The Eiger is a 3,967-metre mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, just north of the main watershed and border with Valais. "The author also has brilliantly analyzed the values and ethics of moutaineering and the reasons why men risk their lives to scale such forbidding peaks and test their own qualities to the utmost." (from rear dj flap).

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: THE WHITE SPIDER: THE STORY OF THE NORTH FACE OF THE EIGER; Translated from the German by Hugh Merrick
• Éditeur: Rupert Hart-Davis, London, England
• Date de parution: 1960
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: Second Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good / Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette