COLD: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3rd imp.[Complete number line 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,subject/author's portrait colour photographic upper panel of dw/dj,with red fluorescent ink and b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages corners - appears unread.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, pale grey cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate Arctic+Antarctic b/w map illustrated feps,b/w North-West Passage map to rear endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3rd imp,2-488pp [paginated] includes author's foreword,16 chapters+afterword,16pp contemporary b/w+colour (the majority) photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp152/3 and pp328/9 respectively,appendices(4),a glossary of selected Snow and Ice terms, picture acknowledgements and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,and contents list/table.
There are only few human beings who can adapt,survive and thrive in the coldest regions on earth.And below a certain temperature,death is inevitable.Sir Ranulph Fiennes has spent much of his life exploring and working in conditions of extreme cold.The loss of many of his fingers to frostbite is a testament to the horrors man is exposed to at such perilous temperatures. With the many adventures he has led over the past 40 years, testing his limits of endurance to the maximum,he deservedly holds the title of the world's greatest explorer. Despite our technological advances,the Arctic,the Antarctic and the highest mountains on earth,remain some of the most dangerous and unexplored areas of the world.This remarkable book reveals the chequered history of man's attempts to discover and understand these remote areas of the planet,from the early voyages of discovery of Cook,Ross,Weddell,Amundsen,Shackleton and Franklin to Sir Ranulph's own extraordinary feats; from his adventuring apprenticeship on the Greenland Ice Cap,to masterminding over the past 5 years the first crossing of the Antarctic during winter,where temperatures regularly plummeted to minus 92*C.Both historically questioning and intensely personal,'Cold' is a celebration of a life dedicated to researching and exploring some of the most hostile and brutally cold places on earth.
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