Lilian starr (9 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Among the usual stories of mountaineering and early exploration in the Himalayas are a few hidden gems pioneering women who beat all odds, defying the lazy stereotypes about gender, to explore and conquer the high Himalayas.Contained in this magnificent collection of daring exploration are accounts by four of these 'high altitude heroines'Alexandra David-Néel, Fanny Bullock Workman, Henrietta Sands Merrick and Lilian A. Starr.Alexandra David-Néel writes about her 1923 secret expedition to Tibet and its capital, Lhasa. Accompanied by a young lama, Yongden, she willingly suffers the harsh travel conditions, frequent outbreaks of disease, the ever-present danger of border control and the military to reach her goal, becoming the first Western woman to reach the 'forbidden city'. American geographer and travel writer Fanny Bullock Workman recounts her astonishing exploratory adventure in 1906 around Nun Kun, the mountain massif located on the border of Jammu and Kashmir. Forty-seven years old at the time, she conquers Pinnacle Peak without any modern equipment and encumbered in her voluminous skirts, setting an altitude record for women.Henrietta Sands Merrick narrates her exciting journey through and around Ladakh in 1931. On her journey, joined by her friends Sandy and Margot, and her orderlies Happy and Gulam, she travels to one of the deepest gorges in the world, experiences the 'Devil Dances' at Hemis and spends a night below the stars at the Khardong Pass.And, Lilian A. Starr, a nurse from the Peshawar Hospital, journeys to the tribal country of Tirah near the Khyber Pass to rescue a young girl abducted by the Afridis. Encountering fierce tribal chieftains and exploring the surrounding Khanki Valley, she is able to successfully negotiate the girl's release.Filled with riveting tales of breathtaking ascents in sub-zero temperatures, perilous journeys to the unknown, and rare anecdotes of life in the high Himalayas, this is a one-of-a-kind collection for all lovers of adventure and travel writing.…

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN.

Zustand: Good. Hodder and Stoughton 1924 Binding: Hardcover.

1st edition. 8vo. 253pp. B/w. portrait frontispiece and illustrations, maps. F.e.ps. browned. Original beige cloth with black lettering to spine, rubbed to edges, tail corners slightly bumped. US$22.

Reprint, 8vo. 253pp. B/w ills. and map. Original brown cloth boards, bumped, grubby spine with black text. Forewords by Lord Rawlinson and Sir John Maffey and edited by Basil Mathews. US$30.

[Reprint]. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 253pp, glossary, endpapers browned, ochre coloured cloth lettered in black on the spine, head and tail of spine tender, with the bookplate of Max Soloman on the fixed endpaper. A good firm copy. First published November 1923, this edition March 1924.…

Zustand: Sehr gut. Original cloth binding, 253 pages, frontispiece, 7 plates, 1 map, binding stained and a bit darkened (as usual), some signs of use, otherwise good condition. The author worked as nurse in a missionary hospital in Peshawar, then North West Frontier Province of Tibet, and journeyed to Ladakh in 1922. In 1923 some Afghans made a raid at Kohat and the author went after them to rescue a friend abducted by them. This after her husband had been killed in another raid in India in 1917 after less than 2 years marriage. She was honorary self-supporting memeber of the Church Missionary Society Medical Mission. Quite a succesfull book at that time. 1st edition of a classic. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First American edition from British sheets. Slight foxing, near fine in good only dustwrapper with large chips on the front panel.275466.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Fifth impression of the true first edition. ***SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR: "For Mrs Knight, with grateful thanks for her help in typing from Lilian A. Underhill (Starr)" in black fountain pen ink to the half-title page." ***Forewords by the author and Lord Rawlinson and an appreciation by Mr. Basil Matthews, with another foreword to part III by Sir John Maffey. ***Black and white frontispiece portrait of the author plus eight black and white plates.***Very good in beige-orange cloth-covered boards with black titles to spine and blind rules to spine and front board. Off-setting to front pastedown and front and rear free endpapers. Top edge of text-block darkened. Light foxing to fore-edge and bottom edge of text-block, not affecting interior pages. Spine tight. ***In a good only cream and black printed dustwrapper with dark sepia photographic illustration of the author in tribal dress to front panel. Large chip and associated tear to top edge of front panel of dustwrapper adjoining head of spine, around head of spine and to top of rear panel. Large chip to top corner of rear panel. Small chips to tail of spine and small loss to other corners of dustwrapper. Edges of dustwrapper creased and rubbed. 253 pages. 194 x 134 mm. ***Contents: Part I: Tirah and Tibet; A Study in Contrasts. Part II: Tales of Lesser Tibet. Part III: The Search for Miss Ellis Among the Afridis; Glossary. ***'On April 14, 1923, a band of Afridi brigands broke into the bungalow of Major A. J. Ellis, Border Regiment, murdered Mrs. Ellis, and carried off her 17-year-old daughter Mollie. They took the girl through a wild, mountainous country clad only in a nightdress and a coat stained with her mother's blood. Her feet were torn and bleeding as they hurried her along. ***Miss Ellis remained in the hands of the Afridis, whose women folk treated her kindly, for ten days, until she was rescued by Mrs. Starr (now Mrs. Underhill, wife of Major G.E. C. Underhill, 11st Punjabis) a nurse at the Mission Hospital at Peshawar. She was brought back in a litter to Kohat by four tribesmen. ***Mrs. Starr, who had already won the favour of the tribesmen by her kindly offices, volunteered to go to the rescue of Miss Ellis, and by her courage and tact succeeded in effecting her delivery, travelling through a wild and dangerous country.' (Quote from a contemporary newspaper cutting loosely inserted into the book along with another newspaper cutting. ***'I have no desire to write my doings. the only reason this small book is put before the public is because it has been asked for. It is merely a Tale of the Lesser Tibet trek in 1922 and the Tirah Trek in 1923. Indeed, the former was never written for publication at all, and the latter is simply a detailed repetition of events from an exact diary in which all conversations and happenings were noted at the time.' (Quote from the Author's Foreword). ***'The Afridi woman, as will be seen from the snapshot of myself in Malik-Din-Khel Afridi dress (page 161), wears a thoroughly sensible outfit for getting about in the hills, a full tunic to the knees, black and red, edged with coloured waxwork in the place of embroidery; and trousers which, though very tight up to the knee, are seven feet long, wrinkling up round the leg to give additional warmth. Over the head is a black cotton chaddar with a red or red and yellow border.' (Quote from page 35). ***An early impression of the first edition, very scarce to find signed and inscribed by the author, which is also an association copy given to Mrs. Knight thanking her for helping to type the book. An early twentieth century travel book of interest to collectors of travel books on Lesser Tibet and Tirah. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Signed and Inscribed by Author.…