The Battle of Silence - 1st Us Edition/1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First US Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York, Chicago: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
Price: $60.00
The Battle of Silence - 1st Us Edition/1st Printing
A first Printing of the First American Edition with little blemishing in Near Fine condition in a somewhat soiled Near Fine dust-jacket; is a memoir of a mountaineer's journey from his childhood in the French Alps to the Himalayas during World War II.
Jean-André Vercors tells the story of his odyssey from the French Alps to the Himalayas in 1938-1939, when he was only seventeen years old. The Battle of Silence is the story of a mountaineer's journey from his childhood in the French Alps to the Himalayas during World War II. Vercors is a remarkable storyteller, and his account of his ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga, a climb that has never been successfully repeated, is riveting.; 8vo; 286 pages; Price? ? ?
