The call of the snowy Hispar: a narrative of exploration and mountaineering on the northern frontier of India . With an appendix by Count Dr. Cesare Calciati and Dr. Mathias Koncza

Workman, Fanny Bullock, & William Hunter Workman

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons; London: Constable and Company Ltd, New York, 1911

About this Item

First edition, American issue, 8vo, pp. xvi, 297, [1]; 2 folding maps, gravure frontispiece, gravure portrait, 1 gravure plate, 90 photographic plates (6 folding); original pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, with pictorial mountainscape onlay on the upper cover, t.e.g.; bookplate removed, else a very good, sound, and clean copy. Fanny Workman was one of the first professional female mountaineers, who wrote a total of eight travel books with her husband. The above is an account of their fourth expedition, in 1908, in which they explored the Hispar Glacier and the Biafo Glacier. Yakushi W231.

Seller Inventory # 67897

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The call of the snowy Hispar: a narrative of exploration and mountaineering on the northern frontier of India . With an appendix by Count Dr. Cesare Calciati and Dr. Mathias Koncza
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons; London: Constable and Company Ltd, New York
• Publication Date: 1911
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Women
  • Asia
  • Himalayas
  • Mountaineering