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A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalaya
by Enables, Stephen
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0091801273
- ISBN 13
- 9780091801274
- Seller
-
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson, 2000. ----- # 012931 - The scan you see is the book you get. Blue cloth with gilt (roughly) 9 1/2" by 6 1/4" (inches) xv, 208 pages including maps, plus 16 pages of colour plates, Near Fine condition, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition now in Mylar. "As I heard the jocular ping of a steel peg ripping from the rock above me & felt the sudden, awful, backwards lurch into space, I realized that I was falling to my death." Check out the scans. . 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
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- Bookseller
- Nessa Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012931
- Title
- A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalaya
- Author
- Enables, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0091801273
- ISBN 13
- 9780091801274
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
- Keywords
- Enables, Stephen A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalaya Hutchinson 0091801273 "As I heard the jocular ping of a steel peg ripping from the rock above me & felt the sudden, awful, backwards lurch into space, I realized that I w
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- Biographies; Nature; Travel and Adventure;
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