FOOTPRINTS ON THE PEAKS MOUNTAINEERING IN CHINA -- 1995 FIRST EDITION

Zheng, Zhou & Liu Zhenkai

ISBN 10: 0938567314 / ISBN 13: 9780938567318

Published by Cloudcap, Seattle, 1995

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1995 FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. Original dust jacket is in flawless new condition. The book is in new condition with no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, 100% clean, no rubbing, tight binding. This book was acquired directly from the publisher and kept in climate controlled storage for years. The book measures 235mm tall x 155mm, and has 228 pages, 6 maps, 41 b/w & 21 color photos, table of peaks above 6000m in China, bibliography, index. A most interesting history of mountaineering in China, from 743 A.D. to present, this book also describes the major peaks & ranges in Chinese territory. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: FOOTPRINTS ON THE PEAKS MOUNTAINEERING IN CHINA -- 1995 FIRST EDITION
• Publisher: Cloudcap, Seattle
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0938567314
• ISBN 13: 9780938567318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
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Synopsis

This book is the first detailed, comprehensive history of mountaineering in one of the world’s most ancient and important civilizations. lts authors are Zhou Zheng, who was in the vanguard of modern climbing in China, and Liu Zhenkai, a leading Chinese writer and scholar. Contrary to the Western misconception of China as a vast green plain terraced into rice paddies, most of the area in the world's largest nation is mountainous. For millennia, Chinese have accepted hill-climbing as part of their normal existence. In antiquity, Chinese poets, Buddhist missionaries and adventurers climbed major Chinese peaks and mountain passes not for sport but for self-enlightenment. With the coming of Marco Polo and the development of the Silk Road, commercial links with the West were established by traversing the dizzying heights in China's western mountain ranges. It was not until the second half of this century that the Chinese took up mountaineering as a sport. After the Soviet Union proposed a