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Hindu-Koh – Wanderings and Wild Sport on and Beyond the Himalayas – Major General Donald Macintyre.– 1891

Published by Blackwood, Edinburgh and London in 1891. Updated enhanced edition of 1891.

Large octavo, 362 pages with numerous illustrations. Striking blue cloth cover with the large gilt illustration of the mountain goat to the front. Very good condition. The frontispiece is a piece of work displaying the “bag” in all its magnificence. The tissue guard to the frontispiece is a masterpiece describing each element of the “bag” … we have put a piece of white paper behind to for the scan so that you can see the detail more clearly.

Macintyre travelled from Srinagar to Leh and on to Chang Chenmo and Lingzi=tang in 1871. This journey covers parts of Cashmere, Sind, Ladakh, Tibet and parts of China. Extensively in the Himalaya foothills. The account represents many years of travel and hunting in the region.

The account contains vivid descriptions of the people and their customs. And the wildlife … including elephant, tiger, bear, leopard, musk-deer, ibex, mansheer, yak and many more. A primary and early source.

Donald Macintyre (1831-1903) was a Major in the British Indian Army … 2nd Gurkha Rifles. He was awarded the Victoria Cross in the Lushai Campaign for successfully storming enemy battlements while under intense fire. His medal resides in the Gurkha Museum.

Rare and valuable account of the broader Himalayas.

$270.00

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South with Scott – Admiral Lord Mountevans – First deluxe edition 1961

Publsihed by Collins, London in 1961. Octavo, 284 pages, many illustrations, top edge blue stained blue as required. All in a pretty good condition with a complete dust jacket.

This book by Mountevans had been published earlier … however, this is a first printing 1961 of the new ”de-luxe” edition with better photographic images from Ponting’s originals and some specially drawn maps on a foldout pasted at the back.

Nice solid book on Scott in the Antarctic.

$25.00

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Polar Castaways – The Ross Sea Party – McElrea and Harrowfield – First Edition 2004

Published by Canterbury University Press, a quality production, first edition 2004. Octavo, 315 pages, well illustrated and in very good if not fine condition.

A through account of the Shackleton 1914 expedition Ross Sea Party.

The Aurora escaped its winter moorings and left the men stranded yet they still went about their task laying depot’s for Shackleton’s attempt at the first right across. Three of the ten men died and it took perennial Captain J.K. Davis to rescue them

First time Ross Sea Party fully explained

$35.00

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Scott of the Antarctic – The Journals of Captain R.F. Scott’s Last Polar Expedition.

The Last Journals of Scott, the 1910 British Antarctic Expedition, here published by Konecky.

Large octavo, 521 pages, endpaper maps. Very good condition in a complete and clean dust jacket. A very solid respectable book.

Nicely illustrated and an economic alternative to the valuable original edition.

Scott’s Last it’s all here …

$25.00

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Unclimbed New Zealand – John Pascoe

Published by George Allen, London in 1950 originally published in 1939. Tall octavo, 245 pages with illustrations from period photographs. Showing some age whilst still a pretty copy ain a near full dust jacket.

A popular NZ climbing book well written by Pascoe. The Arthur’s Pass Mountains; Waimakariri and Wilberforce Valleys; Rakaia Easters, Louper Valley etc

Climbing not unclimbing New Zealand.

$30.00

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Climbs in the Canadian Rockies – Frank Smythe – First edition 1950

Published by Hodder and Stoughton, London a first edition 1950. Octavo, 259 pages with many illustrations and all in very good condition.

Frank Smythe one of the 20th Century’s greatest high altitude climbers. His last great project, the Canadian Rockies. Beautifully written and wonderfully illustrated.

One last great season of climbing for Smythe

$30.00

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