From the Ocean to the Sky: Jet Boating Up the Ganges - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Hillary, Edmund
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0340224606
- ISBN 13
- 9780340224601
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0340224606 . An attractive Fine first UK edition/first printing, signed by author Edmund Hillary directly on the title page in Near Fine dustjacket exhibiting little sunning and chipping around edges; Hillary's encounter with the tiger of the Sunderbans, Hindu holy men and Sikh pilgrims, with rural Bengali villagers and hysterical Calcutta crowds. At every teeming city ghat and wharf, at each remote refueling stop, the people of India - fishermen, city dignitaries, village elders, excited school-children, ancient porters, yogis- all responded with an outpouring of warmth and enthusiasm to honor the pilgrimage of the Western travelers ; 8vo; Signed by Author .
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- Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14142
- Title
- From the Ocean to the Sky: Jet Boating Up the Ganges - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Hillary, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0340224606
- ISBN 13
- 9780340224601
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Hillary Adventure India Hindu Everest, Hillary Autobiography Ganges River, Outdoors Adventure, Travel Ganges Valley, Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Mountaineering Hillary Himalayas
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mountaineering; Author Collections / Hillary, Edmund;
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