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 enlarge | Authors: Maurice Isserman, Stewart Weaver
Publisher: Yale University Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 20978
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 592
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 7.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0300115016
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.522095496
EAN: 9780300115017
ASIN: 0300115016
Publication Date: July 11, 2008
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Needs better maps! October 24, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm about 150 pages into this book. It's been excellent so far but sadly lacking in one area - a good map of the Himalaya, from K2 in the west to Kangchenjunga in the east - and the many towns and villages mentioned in the book. It would have been ideal for the authors to include one on the endpapers. Then the reader could quickly flip there for reference. There are smaller maps throughout but many of them frustratingly do not include many of the place names mentioned. I have ordered the only map I could find - by Nelles Verlag - and will pick up the book again when it arrives. I actually bought it for a gift, so I'll be including the map with the book.
 Fabulous read October 23, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read about this book from a review on the New York Times Review of Books and I ordered it from Amazon. I am basically a hiker though I bought it originally for my teen age nephews but it too technical for a teen ager.
Highly recommend it.
The Age Of Adventure September 27, 2008
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Mountain climbing has always had a last frontier quality. The race to the North and South Poles ended in the early 1900's, Africa and South America were explored by the 1930's, leaving the Himalayan Mountains as the last challenge for adventure. Mr. Isserman and Mr. Weaver has written a comprehensive history of the conquests of the world's highest peaks. Starting from the competitive nationalist expeditions of this century to the solo attempts of today, the book is clearly written and well-researched, with over 100 pages of documentation and notes. The reader can read as a follow-up Maurice Herzog's "Annapurna" (1952), an epic tale of the French harrowing attempt to be the first to conquest a Himalayan peak.
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