Search Results: Authors starting with E from Barking Mad Books

THE ASCENT OF RUM DOODLE - W.E. Bowman - Max Parrish, London, First UK edition, 1956, Hardback, in scarce dustjacket with spine piece missing, tape marks on both endpapers. Time-honoured classic of the first ascent of Rum Doodle, in the fashion of the true mountaineering epics of the 1950s. A parody of the Himalayan expedition stories documenting the ascent of Rum Doodle, estimated at somewhere around 40,000 feet, complete with confessions about the mountaineers' failures at romantic relationships, horrible camp cooking, lousy navigation and all the physical hardships of mountaineering at impossibly high elevations. Illustrations mainly from magazines/books of the day With the bookplate Ex Libris John Nankervis. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS - A CELEBRATION - commemorating the fifth World Parks Congress 2003., Edited by Anthony Hall-Martin & Jane Carruthers, photography Horst Klemm, Published by Klemm Publications, South Africa, 2003, 260 page large-format hardback with VG+ jacket, profusely illustrated catalogue of Sth African parks and conservation areas, history and future conservation issues, This copy contains my bookplate and comes with a number of extra magazine articles on wildlife in Africa. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

ROSS SEA REGION- A state of the environment report for the Ross Sea region of Antarctica, Edited by Emma Waterhouse, 2001, New Zealand Antarctic Institute with contributions by 52 authors, large-format softbound, 280 pages, profusely illustrated with maps, graphs, charts and photographs. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

TIBET'S GREAT YOGI MILAREPA - W Evan's Wentz, Oxford University Press, London, 2nd edn., 1951, original green cloth with gilt titles and decorations, 315 page hardback, booksellers stamp on fep, VG with foxing to endpapers, overall v clean internally, colour and B&W plates - scholarly work on life of Milarepa - a classic history of Tibetan culture. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED