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Libros antiguos y modernos

Burlingham, Frederick

How to Become an Alpinist

1912

62,98 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1912
Lugar de impresión
London. T. Werner Laurie
Autor
Burlingham, Frederick
Edición
First edition.
Materia
Travel - Europe Photography Mountaineering
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [19.5 x 14 cm]; xii, 218, [x, ads] pp, frontis portrait, 63 photos on plates. original green cloth, gilt spine title lettering, gilt device on spine, small stain on spine, minor spotting on a few leaves, presentation bookplate, very good sound and solid condition. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Neate B 217: 'Includes a good selection of photographs of early climbers; good chapter on early women climbers'. The author, called the man who cinematographed the Matterhorn, provides a chapter on filming Mont Blanc under difficulties, and on hints for alpine photography. Other chapters include How to Get Killed in the Alps, accidents on Mont Blanc, In an Avalanche Path, Playing with Death, Blizzards, etc.