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Libri antichi e moderni

Weston, Walter

The Playgrounds of the East

1918

351,56 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1918
Luogo di stampa
London. John Murray
Autore
Weston, Walter
Edizione
First edition.
Soggetto
Travel - Asia Mountaineering Japan
Lingue
Inglese
Prima edizione

Descrizione

8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; xii, 333, [iv, publisher's ads] pp, plates, 2 folding colored maps with author's route in red, index. orig red cloth, gilt badge of the Japanese Alpine Club on front cover, gilt spine title lettering, spine faded with small stain, bookplate of Thomas Barratt on endpaper, interior is clean and fine with very minor foxing on few leaves in very good cover. A Neate W46: 'Follow-up on his first book on mountaineering in Japan'. 'Weston is revered as the Father of mountaineering in Japan (Neate), and is the first foreign climber to climb all the major Japanese mountains. The maps show the Japanese Alps. The foreword is by Professor Shigetaka (Juko) Shiga.