LIFE IS MEETING, [Autobiography],
by John Hunt (Lord Hunt of Llanfair Waterdine)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- 24 illustrations, 11 maps. Short repaired tear to jacket. VERY GOOD book in FAIR unclipped dust jacket
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Hodder and Stoughton, Bedford Square, London - 1978 hardcover, 6½" x 9½", with dust jacket 24 illustrations, 11 maps. Short repaired tear to jacket. VERY GOOD book in FAIR unclipped dust jacket Lord Hunt looks back on a full and varied career that embraces working for Montgomery's staff at Allied Forces HQ, Fontainebleau, leading the first successful ascent of Everest, and an invitation to chair the newly formed Parole Board. Lord Hunt's mountain memories include Alpine-style climbing in the Karakoram and the Himalayas before the second world war; exploration of unclimbed parts of Greenland and the Yukon; other chapters describe intelligence work in Bengal in the 1930s; heading the British Relief Mission to Nigeria during the Civil War, and the role of the House of Lords.
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- Bookseller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40655
- Title
- LIFE IS MEETING, [Autobiography],
- Author
- John Hunt (Lord Hunt of Llanfair Waterdine)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 6½" x 9½", with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - 24 illustrations, 11 maps. Short repaired tear to jacket. VERY GOOD book in FAIR unclipped dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton, Bedford Square, London -
- Date Published
- 1978
- Pages
- 286 pages
- Keywords
- Autobiography John Hunt Lord Hunt of Llanfair Waterdine Nigeria Civil War Yukon Memoirs Mountaineering Greenland Karakoram Everest
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