silence great mallory conquest, Edition originale (14 résultats)

hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition.

Etat : Good. First Edition. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good+. 1st Edition. Covers have light edge wear, upper corners very slightly bumped. Internally nice and clean throughout. Dust jacket has edge and corner wear, a small (<1/2") spot to front of jacket. A very good, solid copy. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never ex-library unless explicitly described as such.

Hardcover. Etat : Like New. Etat de la jaquette : Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($32.50 price intact). Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Octavo. Black cloth over gray boards stamped in silver. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear and slight stains on the back. 554 pages. ISBN: 9780375408892. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.

Soft cover. Etat : New. 1st Edition. A classic account of exploration and endurance from the bestselling author of The Wayfinders. In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based on more than a decade of prodigious research in British, Canadian and European archives, and months in the field in Nepal and Tibet, Wade Davis vividly re-creates British climbers' epic attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. With new access to letters and diaries, Davis recounts the heroic efforts of George Mallory and his fellow climbers to conquer the mountain in the face of treacherous terrain and furious weather. He takes us beyond the Himalayas to the trenches of World War I, where Mallory and his generation found themselves and their world utterly shattered. In the wake of the war that destroyed all notions of honor and decency, the Everest expeditions, led by these scions of Britain's elite, emerged as a symbol of national redemption and hope. Into the Silence is a timeless portrait of an extraordinary generation of adventurers, the likes of which we will never see again. Review: Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: Its tempting to call Wade Daviss magnificent Into the Silence an Everest of a book. But that would be misleading. It is more like K2: challenging, technically complex, and hugely rewarding upon completion. The book starts off not with mountaineering, but with vivid, novelistic descriptions of the horrors of the First World War. Years of waste and destruction in the trenches, Davis argues, led a desperate nation to embrace the assault on Everest as a gesture of imperial redemption. Those who endured attempts on the summit all bore the scars of the Great Warand they were drawn to the mountain by an almost contradictory desire for conquest and spiritual ablution. At the center of it all is Mallory, whose eventual disappearance effectively closed that chapter in mountaineering. His utterance because its there became a new war cry, but he climbed for deeper reasons entirely. -- Chris Schluep.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. 655pp. Pictorial colour photographic covers and spine with light crease to front cover, b/w portrait of author inside rear cover, b/w dbl. & full page maps, b/w plts. & text ills., bibliog., index. Into the Silence succeeeds not only because David's research has been prodigious, but because every sentence has been struck with conviction, every image evoked with fierce reverence- for the heartbreaking twilight era, for the magnificent resilience of its survivors, for their mission, for Mallory, for his mountain. Size: Thick Octavo. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. 1st Edition. Jacket price clipped. Pristine new condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. The corners are not bumped, maps for end papers, with 650 pp. The dust jacket is not price clipped, no tears in a broadart cover.

Hard Cover. Etat : F. Etat de la jaquette : F. First Edition. F/F. 8vo. original black boards (slight toning to leaf edges, trifling faint spots) in dustwrapper priced £25.00 (a trifle rubbed); pp. xiv, 656 (last blank), with illustrations. Heavy item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A fine copy.

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good Plus. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. First printing. Signed by author on title page. Bumped on head of spine and on front lower corner, faint crease in first nine pages, light chipping along fore edge of four pages that extend slightly beyond the remaining pages, else very good plus. DJ rubbed on ends of spine, along folds and on ends of flap folds, else very good. Protected in Mylar. Note: heavy book - 655 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Etat : VG+. Etat de la jaquette : Good+. First Edition. Flat signed (no inscription) by the author on the title page. 655 pages in very good condition. With 16 pages of photographs and 4 maps. Half bound with black cloth over grey boards. Silver titles on the spine. Two bottom corners lightly bumped. Illustrated blue DJ with black titles. Corners and edges scuffed. Spine a little faded and scuffed. Not price clipped. VG+/GOOD+. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed by Davis on the title page. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. 8vo. xiv, 655pp. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Signed on the title page by Wade Davis, Signing event provenance laid in. First Canadian edition and first printing. Very scarce signed. Minor bumping to the book cover only. The dust jacket is fine and protected in a Brodart sleeve. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Signed on the title page by Wade Davis. Mr. Davis has also written with his signature, the last line of the book, ".life mattered less than the moments of being alive." A very special and uniquely signed copy. Signing event provenance laid in. First Canadian edition and first printing in FINE condition. The dust jacket is protected in a Brodart sleeve. Signed by Author(s).