Mason kenneth noyce (1 Ergebnisse)

57 volumes, 8vo, the first 12 volumes in contemporary three-quarter blue cloth, paper labels on spine, all with original printed wrappers bound in, otherwise in original printed and/or pictorial wrappers; a few issues with the occasional tear or ding, one plate loose, and pencil annotations in earlier volumes, else a very good set. Numerous maps, panoramas, plates, etc., many folding, some in color; and noteworthy articles by prominent explorers on recent expeditions, logistics of expeditions, natural history, sport, surveying, geology, etc., including Sir Aurel Stein, Frank Kingdon Ward, Hugh Ruttledge, H. W. Tilman, Eric Shipton, John Hunt, T. H. Somervell, Maurice Herzog, W. H. Murray, and Sir Edmund Hillary, among many, many others. Includes many obituaries, letters to the editor, club notices, book reviews, and pertinent advertisements. The Himalayan Club was founded in Calcutta in 1928 along the lines of the Alpine Club. The stated mission of the organization was "to encourage and assist Himalayan travel and exploration, and to extend knowledge of the Himalaya and adjoining mountain ranges through science, art, literature and sport.".…