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Buy this book on-line GILBERT, RICHARD: : YOUNG EXPLORERS. [Author SIGNED copy.]UK.YORK.G.H.SMITH&SON,1979. ISBN 0904775054.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.NFINE/VG.
Neat,handwritten,ink presentation inscrptn to half-title page and signed by author under his printed name to title page. Colour photographic dw/dj with slight shelf-wear to edges.Top edges dw/dj slightly creased with one small closed tear to top front corner and light rubbing to head of spine/backstrip.A small closed tear also to foot of same.Blue paper-covered boards with gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and sepia photographic eps.Fore- edges clean; contents bright,tight and clean.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,236pp
includes introduction,foreword,9 b/w maps by Gerard Simpson - expedition member,8 colour plates,80 b/w photographs,appendix,
list of equipment and an index.
This is a book about mountain climbing and exploration carried out in remote and beautiful parts of the world by boys from Ampleforth College in Yorkshire.The author
was elected President of the Oxford University Mountaineering Club in 1961, has ascended all the 280 Munros - mountains in Scotland over 3,000' - and has been teaching chemistry at Ampleforth College since 1966.
The book maps the course of 5 major expeditions starting with an inexperienced
party to the Myrdals Jokull ice cap in Iceland and finishing with a highly trained team attempting Kolahoi,a 17,900 ft high rock peak in the Himalaya.
The first ever Himalayan Expedition from a British school.The book contains high adventure,danger and humour and it shows what can be accomplished by enthusiastic school children.It will inspire teachers to mount their own expeditions and it will
fire the enthusiasm of parents and children alike to participate in adventurous pursuits.The lucky participants of these 5 expeditions have gained life-long memories.They will never forget the clear sharp air and hypnotic light of Iceland,the midnight sun on the peaks of Lyngen in Artic Norway,the eerie cries of the Berber goat herds in the High Atlas or the stupendous Lidder Valley
in Kashmir which has been described as the most beautiful place on earth.Richard Gilbert has put together an enthralling package of adventures and a travelogue which enables his readers to share the delights and trials of living rough in Iceland,Morocco,Arctic Norway and India.
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