Climb to the Lost World by Hamish MacInnes - 1974-10-01

Hodder & Stoughton. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Hardback. Very Good.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, October 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine book in a Very Good- jacket. First Edition. Black paper over boards with bright gilt titles to spine. Unmarked. Spine straight and sound, tail bumped. Jacket clipped with chipping and several one inch closed tears, mostly along hinges, spine faded. Not from a library. No remainder mark.
This is an expedition book. Mount Roraima, at the border of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil, is a tepui--a table-top mountain. One of the oldest geologic formations on Earth it is Arthur Conan Doyle's "Lost World". Roraima's 25-square-mile summit rises abruptly from the surrounding jungles 5000 feet below and is bounded on all sides by sheer towering cliffs. Sir Walter Raleigh described Roraima during his 1595 expedition, but it took nearly three centuries before the first European found a path to Roraima's summit. Nine decades after that, in 1973, another team of Europeans conquered Roraima's Grand Prow, a sheer overhanging sandstone wall on the Guyana side… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974 F-/F-. 8vo. original black rexine gilt (a trifle bumped at extremities) in dustwrapper (discreet fray to headcap, spine a trifle sunned); pp. 224, with 10 colour & 37 black & white plates. A near fine copy. [Neate M12: Climbing the Great Prow of Roraima, Guyana; a severe climb in appalling conditions]. . First Edition. Hard Cover. F-/F-.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.