The top of the world

Fisher, Welthy Honsinger

Published by The Abingdon Press, New York and Cincinnati, 1926

About this Item

First edition, 8vo, pp. 178, [2]; frontispiece and 31 plates after photographs by the author; green pictorial cloth; fine in very good dust jacket with light soiling, some shallow chipping and closed tears, and price-clipped inner panel. Fisher was an educator, feminist, and traveler. She was one of the founders of World Education, and the only American placed on an Indian postage stamp. From the jacket: "This volume is the record of a remarkable journey which Bishop and Mrs. Fisher took to the mountain fastnesses of the Himalayas. Using their own little shack in Darjeeling. they started back, following for a while the route of the Everest climbers, and went on to spend some time with the lamas of the lamassaries of Sikhim and Nepal to the very border of Tibet." Yakushi F97.

Seller Inventory # 67485

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The top of the world
• Publisher: The Abingdon Press, New York and Cincinnati
• Publication Date: 1926
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Women
  • Travel
  • Asia
  • Tibet