High Adventure by Edmund Hillary

High Adventure

by Edmund Hillary

with maps by A. Spark and sketches by George Djurkouic

Readers Book Club, 1957, black and white photographic plates, black and white illustrations and line drawings, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges and corners, previous owners gift inscription on front end-paper, watermark to bottom centre of cover and end-papers only, price-clipped dust-jacket in fair condition, shows edges and shelf wear with some rubbing, tears and small parts missing (see photographs) 

"What personal reactions stir a man who stands on top of the world ...?  Here is an intensely stirring story of a life, of a purpose, of a MAN.  Here is what the awesome void of the Himalayan heights, the spadework of the preparations, the companionship of the camps, the countless earlier climbs in far different conditions felt like to a quiet-spoken New Zealander who did what men had died in vain to do through the years.
From Sir Edmund Hillary himself comes this perfect complement to Sir John Hunt's epic, The Ascent of Everest, which was the Club's selection for May 1955."