Buy this book on-line FIENNES**, RANULPH: : HEAT: Extreme Adventures at the Highest Temperatures on EarthLONDON.SIMON & SCHUSTER UK LTD.,2017. ISBN 9781471137952.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] NMINT/NMINT. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,author/subject portrait colour photograph illustrated front of dw/dj, with author's capitalised,embossed,glossy metallic red-lettered name at top edge; capitalised,embossed,glossy,white-lettered part-title and flat printed,capitalised,matt white-lettered sub-title at lower edge.Spine/backstrip with author's thumbnail colour portrait between similarly coloured+lettered author name and sub-title respectively,as the front's,and publisher's flat printed,capitalised,white-lettered name and white illustrated colophon to foot of same.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges bright,crisp and clean without foxing /spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread other than my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean/unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain brown cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt-lettered spine and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,2-406pp [paginated] includes 16 chapters, Appendices (I-VI),Acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,a Contents list/table,a Preface with b/w map South Africa to its reverse,24pp of historical (b/w) and contemporary (colour) photographs in 3 blocks,between pp128/29, pp198/99 and pp278/79 respectively and other assorted b/w illustration/maps also interspersed throughout the text and the book,and an Index. Other Fiennes titles in my MODERN FIRSTS2, SIGNED and BIOGRAPHY catalogues.
Visually,the external appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for it's brightnesss,cleanliness and lack of use and age-acquired detracting faults. Fresh from finishing the Marathon des Sables, Ranulph Fiennes has become the oldest Briton to complete this ultimate endurance test.The world's greatest living explorer,he has travelled to some of the most remote, dangerous parts of the globe.Well-known for his experiences at the Antarctic and Arctic poles and as the oldest climber of Everest,he has also endured some of the hottest conditions on the planet, where temperatures regularly exceed 40 degrees and, without water and shelter, death is inevitable.
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