Search Results: Authors starting with N from Barking Mad Books

HUNTING ADVENTURES IN THE ARCTIC, Fridtjof Nansen, Dent and sons, London, 1925, 425 page hardback, original olive green cloth, faded gilt titles, bumped/worn corners, one small ex-lib stamp inside, new endpapers, B&W plates plus many pen drawings by the author - Nansen's scarcest book in English - hunting and survival. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

NANSEN'S FARTHEST NORTH - Fridtjof Nansen, George Newnes, London, 1898 - 2nd edn., two volumes, B&W plates, fold out map of Nansen's drift in Fram across the Arctic in facsimile,dark green leather spine with gilt titles and designs with blue cloth boards, gilt titles, a bright, crisp set, Colin Monteath bookplate inserted.
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THE ANCIENT RUINS OF RHODESIA, R HALL & W NEAL, Methuen, London, 1902, original blue cloth with gilt decoration and gilt titles, silverfish damage to boards and spine..but, overall a bright sound copy, very large foldout map of Rhodesia in rear pocket, some tears but complete, profusely illustrated with B&W plates, diagrams - Geography, mining, archaeology - a detailed account. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

HIGH ASIA - An illustrated history of the 7000-metre peaks, Jill Neate, Unwin - Hyman, 1989, 212 page VG hardback with VG jacket, B&W and colour plates, maps as endpapers, plus other local peak maps - dated now but still useful for planning expeditions ( When published 177 of the 451 x 7000m peaks were still unclimbed) - Very hard to find, especially in this condition - THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

CLIMBING THE FISH'S TAIL - Wilfrid Noyce, Heineman , London, 1958, 1st edn.,VG+ in original blue cloth, with VG dustjacket, Classic British Himalayan expedition that made the first ascent of Machapuchare in the Annapurna Range, Central Nepal - Hard to find, especially in this condition.
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THE GODS ARE ANGRY, Wilfrid Noyce, Heinemann, London, 1st edn., 1957, minor foxing, VG, VG+ jacket, a mountaineering novel about an ascent of Changma. From the jacket flaps "'Joy to behold, and Death to approach,' - so runs the Hindu legend about Changma, 26,410 feet of Himalayan rock, snow and ice. Hindu and Buddhist authorities are against any attempt to climb it, for this is the sacred moutain of North Garhwal, the abode of the gods." THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED