Description

Large format hardcover, blue cloth boldly lettered in gold, in publisher’s pictorial dust-jacket. 126 pages. Photographs [71 in full color and 8 in black and white, plus 6 maps] and text by Yoshikaza Shirakawa. Preface by Arnold Toynbee. Introduction by Sir Edmund Hillary. Containing an essay, “The Great Himalayas,” by Kyuda Fukada. First American edition, published in Japan under the title “Himalaya.” Magnificent full page and double-page color photographs illustrate this photo-essay devoted to two major sections of the Himalayan range: the Nepal and the Punjab Himalayas. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. Dust-jacket complete with no chips or tears, and only mild incidental shelf-wear. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket. A large book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage.