Search Results: Authors starting with W from Barking Mad Books

MOUNT EVEREST 1938 - H.W. Tilman, Cambridge University Press, 1948, 1st edn, 2nd imp 1948: VG in facsimile jacket. Classic understated Tilman account of a lightweight attempt on North ridge Chomolungma via Central Rongbuk, reached 8300m, team included Frank Smythe - publication delayed due to WWII. Whether these mountains are climbed or not, smaller expeditions are a step in the right direction. It's 1938, the British have thrown everything they've got at Everest but they still not reached the summit. War in Europe seems inevitable; the Empire is shrinking. Still reeling from failure in 1936, the British are granted one more permit by the Tibetans, one more chance to climb the mountain. Only limited resources are available, so can a small team be assembled and succeed where larger teams have failed? H.W. Tilman is the obvious choice to lead a select team made up of some of the greatest British mountaineers history has ever known, including Eric Shipton, Frank Smythe and Noel Odell. Indeed, Tilman… Read More

THE STEEPEST MOUNTAIN - NEW ZEALAND ANDES EXPEDITION, 1960, Lloyd Warburton - privately published, Invercargill, New Zealand, 1st Edn., 1964 original red cloth with VG+ dustjacket (tape marks inside) - an ascent of Nevado Cayesh 'the steepest mountain' in the Cordillera Blanca, Peruvian Andes - involving Kiwi climbers, Lindsay Stewart, Lloyd Warburton, Lynn Crawford, Dal Ryan etc - hard to find THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

THE CALL OF THE SNOWY HISPAR, Fanny Bullock & William Hunter Workman, Constable, London, 1910, 1st UK edition, 287 page hardback, rebound in grey cloth with gilt titles, no library markings, one waterstain to one of the 100+ B&W plates, two large fold-out maps in rear - near perfect, one detached. Previous owner's signature on prelims, fep missing, Account of the Workman's 1908 exploration of the Hispar and Biafo glacier areas in the Karakoram. Scarce.
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ICE BOUND HEIGHTS OF THE MUSTAGH Fanny Bullock Workman & William Hunter Workman, Archibald Constable & Co, London, 1908. First edition. 444 page hardback, nicely rebound in grey cloth with gilt titles, no library markings, 170 illustrations, some coloured, some full-page, including 3 photogravure portraits - two with minor water stain, 2 large folding maps in rear, fep missing & binding loose, Account of the authors' 1902-3 expedition in the Baltistan Himalayas. They explored the Chogo Lungma Glacier and later reached the Nushik La from the Hoh Lumba Glacier. All the impressive illustrations are from the authors own photographs. Mrs Workman established a new world height record for women (c.23,000 ft) when she climbed the Pinnacle Peak during a later expedition in 1906. She was aged 47 - Scarce.
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THE STORY OF ANTARCTIC CO-OPERATION - 25 years of the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs, Gillian Wratt, Published by COMNAP, 2013, 210 page as new softbound, richly illustrated survey of modern science and logistic support carried out by Treaty nations in Antarctica - a very useful backgrounder THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED