From the Ocean to the Sky
by Hillary, Edmund
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670331724
- ISBN 13
- 9780670331727
- Seller
-
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
New York, New York: the Viking Press, 1979. Hardcover. fine. 1st edition. 273pp. Octavo. Original bi-coloured cloth (blue/brown) with silver lettering on spine and front cover. Pictorial dustjacket. Maps on endpapers, vividly illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. Tight, clean copy. Signed by Sir Edmund Hillary on the front-title. fine Detailing Sir. Edmund Hillary's 1500-mile-long adventure from "the Ganges River up-stream against the current as far as we could travel". 1979
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 126931
- Title
- From the Ocean to the Sky
- Author
- Hillary, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670331724
- ISBN 13
- 9780670331727
- Publisher
- the Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Boating|Edmund Hillary|Everest|Ganges River|Hillary, Sir Edmund|Mountain Climbing|Mountaineering|Rafting
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Aquila Books
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Calgary, Alberta
About Aquila Books
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- Fine
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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