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George Leigh Mallory / a memoir by David Pye ; with a foreword by George Mallory II ; introduction by Tristam Pye.
LIBRA CT788.L45 P8 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pye, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mallory, George, 1886-1924.
- Mallory, George.
- Mountaineers--Biography.
- Mountaineers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 182 leaves of plates, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bangkok : Orchid Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- This first of several biographies of the Everest pioneer, George Mallory, whose body was dramatically recovered on the mountain 1999, is the only one to be written by a contemporary fellow mountaineer, and close personal friend. Long regarded as containing some of the finest detail of all mountaineering literature, this work, often quoted in later biographies, was published for the first and only previous time in 1927.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Originally published by the Oxford University Press in 1927.
- ISBN:
- 9745240109
- OCLC:
- 52199053
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