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1st Edition, 8vo. Hardcover, green cloth, gilt titles, mountain illustration pasted on cover, top edge gilt,, 24x17x4 cm, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1908, xv, 421 pp, Color frontis, numerous full-page photo illustrations, 2 tipped in folding maps at back, Covers moderately faded and worn at extremities, hinges beginning to split and have been neatly glue-repaired, still a good plus copy with very good contents, An account of Himalayan mountaineering by the husband and wife team. Fanny Workman is noted for setting several altitude records for women in an era when Himalayan mountaineering was considered a man’s pursuit. She was the first woman admitted to the Royal Geographic Society. Heavy book, may require extra shipping. weight: 3.4 lb.
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