To the Top of the Continent: Discovery, Exploration and Adventure in Sub-arctic Alaska. The First Ascent of Mt. McKinley, 1903-1906
Author(s):
Cook, Frederick A.
Copyright: 1908, Doubleday, Page, NY
Specifications: 1st, 8vo, pp.xxi, 321, color frontis, 71 bw photos, 13 maps/illus, appendices, teg, gilt lettered spine, dec green cloth
Condition: signed Brad Washburn, cloth spine a little darkened w/ light rubbing top/bottom, bookplate, vg+.
Washburn did much to prove that Cook’s summit photos were not taken anywhere near the summit of McKinley. Nonetheless, an important book for any mountaineering library.
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