Search Results: When Men and Mountains Meet by John Keay

Shoe String Press, Incorporated. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Shoe String Press, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

John Murray Publishers, 1977. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Oxford University Press, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardback. Good.

Transatlantic Arts, 1978-03. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Hodder & Stoughton. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1994-02-17. 1 Ed. paperback. Used: Good.

Pimlico, 1983. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Book is in very good condition. General shelf and handling wear. Interior is clean with a tight spine.

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Good.

Century, 25/08/1983. paperback. Good. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Published by Century. By John Keay. Some fading on cover. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

London John Murray, 1977, hardcover. Later printing 1981. Illustrated with photos and engravings. Jacket has wrap-around watercolor art of the glacier of Panmah, Baltistan, Pakistan. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine, with near fine dust jacket (flap clipped but with publishers' re-price label). ISBN 0719533341

Karachi, Oxford University Press, 1993. . 8vo; pp. x, 277; numerous b/w illustrations throughout, 24 b/w plates, 4 maps, bibliography index; original stiff illustrated wrapper, pages coming away from top of spine, a good copy.

Century, London, 1983. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good/N/A. Century Travellers Series; illustrated by b/w. maps & drawings; "As a challenge for explorers the mountain wilderness between India and Inner Asia was unique. The Western Himalayas were seen as a barrier guarding fabled cities unvisited since Marco Polo, barring the way for the commercial opening of Central Asia and Inland China. It took half a century to penetrate this barrier - evidence enough of the appalling difficulties involved. Then, as now, these were partly man-made, for the mountains were of overriding strategic and political importance: there was too much at stake for the sort of free-for-all that happened in Africa or Australia. The freelance traveller was discouraged or discredited; official travellers operated behind a dense screen of secrecy and unlikely excuses. Then there was the terrain - the most formidable on earth, powerful enough to undermine man's sense of self-importance. Yet these… Read More

Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1982 Blue cloth with gold titling. duotone (cyanotype) illustrated dust jacket. Four maps, 24 plates and seven engravings. The title is a quote from William Blake's Gnomic Verses: 'Great things are done when men and mountiains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street.' Boards and titling a bit faded, Very good book in near fine dust jacket. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. .. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: John Murray Publishers, 1977. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket. Dustjacket in clean, clear protective cover. Scattered small brown stains to top page edges. Apparent water stain to spine end of top pages. Not penetrating.. Godwin-Austen, H.H. (Cover wraparound watercolor, glacier of Panmah, Baltistan, from Skeenmung, 1862).. 0 277 p. B&W Illustrations, photos. Maps on tan paper section. Red cloth covered boards, gold spine titles. Bibliography. Index. The region between India and Inner Asia challenged mountain wilderness explorers, barring the fabled cities of Marco Polo's tales from commercial opening of Central Asia and Inland China. There were strategic secrets and the mountains themselves. It took 50 years.

Century 1983. Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

John Murray Publishers Ltd. Very Good. 0719533341. 1977, bright clean copy, with dustjacket, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981 . 1977. Hardcover.