A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush: A Preposterous Adventure (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st library ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Grey cloth spine with a black and gold title label next to a brown pictorial front board. Clean and bright copy.
"A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush" is a classic of travel writing and adventure memoir in which Eric Newby chronicles his audacious 1956 journey from the London fashion world to the remote Nuristan mountains of northeast Afghanistan, recounting his ill-prepared attempt with diplomat friend Hugh Carless to summit the previously unclimbed 19,800-foot Mir Samir with a self-deprecating wit and keen eye for landscape and character that secured his reputation as one of Britain's finest travel writers.
Author: Eric Newby
Format: Hardback
Published: 1999, The Adventure Library
Genre: Travel & exploration
Edition: 1st library ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Grey cloth spine with a black and gold title label next to a brown pictorial front board. Clean and bright copy.
"A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush" is a classic of travel writing and adventure memoir in which Eric Newby chronicles his audacious 1956 journey from the London fashion world to the remote Nuristan mountains of northeast Afghanistan, recounting his ill-prepared attempt with diplomat friend Hugh Carless to summit the previously unclimbed 19,800-foot Mir Samir with a self-deprecating wit and keen eye for landscape and character that secured his reputation as one of Britain's finest travel writers.