In the ice world of Himálaya : among the peaks and passes of Ladakh, Nubra, Suru, and Baltistan / by Fanny Bullock Workman, M.R.A.S., F.R.S.G.S. Corr. Member of the National Geographic Society, Washington, Member of the French Alpine Club and William Hunter Workman, M.A., M.D., F.R.G.S. Member of the French Alpine Club authors of "Algerian Memories" and "Sketches A-Wheel in Fin de Siècle Iberia" ; with three maps and sixty-seven illustrations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Workman, Fanny Bullock, 1859-1925.

Workman, William Hunter, 1847-1937, author.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Himalaya Mountains--Description and travel.

Himalaya Mountains.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Dimmock, Col. (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Workman, Fanny Bullock, 1859-1925 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Workman, William Hunter, 1847-1937 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (autograph) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 204 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 67 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps (3 colored folded), portraits ; 23 cm

Manufacture:

[Edinburgh] : Printed at The Edinburgh Press, 9 & 11 Young Street.

Place of Publication:

London : T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Square, 1900.

Notes:

With half-title.

Account of the Workman's first Himalayan journey in 1898-1899.

Publisher's advertisements: [2] p. at end.

Includes glossary (p. 203-204).

Green decorated cloth boards lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt; other edges untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Presentation letter in ms collection.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to "Col. Dimmock with compliments and sincere thanks of Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman".

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Henry H. Bonnell.

OCLC:

4061575