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Weston, Walter

The Playgrounds of the East

1918

351.56 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Year of publication
1918
Place of printing
London. John Murray
Author
Weston, Walter
Edition
First edition.
Keyword
Travel - Asia Mountaineering Japan
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; xii, 333, [iv, publisher's ads] pp, plates, 2 folding colored maps with author's route in red, index. orig red cloth, gilt badge of the Japanese Alpine Club on front cover, gilt spine title lettering, spine faded with small stain, bookplate of Thomas Barratt on endpaper, interior is clean and fine with very minor foxing on few leaves in very good cover. A Neate W46: 'Follow-up on his first book on mountaineering in Japan'. 'Weston is revered as the Father of mountaineering in Japan (Neate), and is the first foreign climber to climb all the major Japanese mountains. The maps show the Japanese Alps. The foreword is by Professor Shigetaka (Juko) Shiga.