Elusive Summits: Four Expeditions in the Karakoram
by Victor Saunders
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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Newhaven, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. First edition,first printing.Firmly bound, clean crisp pages which are lightly age-tanned at the edges. Small area of indentation marks to fore edge of front board. Bright jacket with light creasing to top edge and indentation marks as per front board. Won the Boardman Tasker prize in 1991and describes four lightweight expeditions to the Karakoram range-Uzum Brakk, Bojohaghur, Rimo, and Spantik. Illustrated. Quite scarce. 192 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 750 grams. Category: Mountaineering; Inventory No: dscf3782. .
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- Bookseller
- Denton Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- dscf3782
- Title
- Elusive Summits: Four Expeditions in the Karakoram
- Author
- Victor Saunders
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Mountaineering;
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