View From The Summit - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Auckland: Doubleday, 1999.
ISBN: 0908821093
View From The Summit - 1st Edition/1st Printing
A most handsome first New Zealand edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-wrapper, minute bumping. Signed by author E. P. Hillary directly on the title page.
Hillary looks back on that 1953 landmark expedition, as well as his remarkable explorations in other exotic locales, from the South Pole to the Ganges. View From The Summit is the compelling life story of a New Zealand country boy who daydreamed of wild adventures; the pioneering climber who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth after scaling the world's tallest peak; and the elder statesman and unlikely diplomat whose groundbreaking program of aid to Nepal continues to this day, paying his debt of worldwide fame to the Himalayan region; 8vo; [x], 309, [1] pages; Signed by Author.
Price: $483.00
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