EVEREST: THE MAN AND THE MOUNTAIN J.R. Smith 1999 1st edition Paperback Fine SIGNED by Jim Smith (Smith, J.R.)

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Scotland, 1999, 1st edition. 306 pp, b/w photos, illustrations and maps. Thick Trade Paperback, VG or maybe Near Fine condition. It looks like somebody read it. George Everest was not interested in having a mountain named for him. He was a surveyor, a map maker, a skilled person, and also a leader. Head of the Great Trigonometric Survey, nothing more and nothing else. That is not who they name places for. The highest mountain in the world, they knew they had it measured. In the end, it was one more reason that their country back from these white slave-makers. After receiving a military education in Marlow, Everest joined the East India Company and arrived in India at the age of 16. He was eventually made an assistant to William Lambton on the Great Trigonometric Survey, and replaced Lambton as superintendent of the survey in 1823. Everest was largely responsible for surveying the meridian arc from the southernmost point of India north to Nepal, a distance of about 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi), a task that took from 1806 to 1841 to complete. He was made Surveyor General of India in 1830, retiring in 1843 and returning to England. In 1865, the Royal Geographical Society renamed Peak XV – at the time only recently identified as the world's highest peak – to Mount Everest in his honor. Andrew Scott Waugh, his prot�g� and successor as surveyor general, had been responsible for putting his name forward in 1856. Everest's name was used as a compromise due to the difficulty of choosing between multiple local names for the mountain. He initially objected to the honor, as he had had nothing to do with its discovery and believed his name was not easily written or pronounced in Hindi.
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