THE INDIAN ALPS AND HOW WE CROSSED THEM BY A LADY PIONEER: BEING A NARRATIVE OF TWO YEARS RESIDENCE IN THE EASTERN HIMALAYA AND TWO MONTHS TOUR INTO THE INTERIOR Mazuchelli 1876 1st USA ed Near Fine Tall & heavy hardcover (Mazuchelli, Nina Elizabeth)

	Item #: OP2193A-893p THE INDIAN ALPS AND HOW WE CROSSED THEM BY A LADY PIONEER: BEING A NARRATIVE OF TWO YEARS RESIDENCE IN THE EASTERN HIMALAYA AND TWO MONTHS TOUR INTO THE INTERIOR Mazuchelli 1876 1st USA ed Near Fine Tall & heavy hardcover By Mazuchelli, Nina Elizabeth Price: $495.00 List Price: $1200.00 You Save $705.00 (59%) Add to wish list Click Here For Related Selections
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New York, Dodd Mead and Company, 1876, 1st UK edition. 612 pp, 10 coloured plates, folding map and several text illustrations. Original red pictorial cloth gilt, beveled boards. There is no edge wear, and virtually no bumps to corners and edges. There is internal foxing and and some offsetting from plates. Top edge gilt. Near Fine condition. The book is actually in new condition, and has probably sat in somebody's library for 126 years, and has no flaws that were created by a person. Flaws are all age related. Elizabeth Sarah Mazuchelli, known as Nina (1832-1914), was living in Darjeeling, India, with her husband, a chaplain in the British army, when she determined to make an extended tour of the glaciers of the eastern Himalayas. It is rumored that she was the first western woman to see Mount Everest. They following the Nepal-Sikkim frontier along the Singailila Ridge & while at Darjeeling set off on a journey to explore the glaciers of the eastern Himalayas to the Singalila Ridge and Pass with much baggage, taking with them many coolies to bear their supplies. Accompanied by the District Officer and an army of bearers, they set forth with Nina ensconced in a sort of sedan chair and before long were hopelessly lost in the snowfields. Their survival was just fools' luck. As Jane Robinson concludes in Wayward Women, ''It was a farcical expedition and Nina was the first to admit it, making her account an affectionate burlesque. But Nina's account has become by default a classic of mountaineering literature; she was, after all, the first Englishwoman to have travelled so far into the eastern Himalaya (they all but reached the Tibetan border before turning back) a real 'Lady Pioneer'.'' This book is very large, 10'' tall and 2'' thick, is one of the early classics of Himalayan travel, and one of the few early exploration books that was not primarily a hunting expedition.
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