Land of Tempest: Travels in Patagonia 1958-1962
Author(s):
Shipton, Eric
Copyright: 1963, Hodder & Stoughton, London
Specifications: 1st, 8vo, pp.224, photo frontis, 24 bw photos, 3 maps, green cloth
Condition: signed, dj lightly rubbed, clipped, vg+, cloth w/ Major William D. Hackett bookplate, tight, fine
Accounts of four expeditions in the isolated regions of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. This copy has the bookplate of noted mountaineer Bill Hackett. Hackett was the first person to reach five of the Seven Summits, amongst other climbs, long before attempting these peaks became a popular quest. Signed copies of Shipton’s book are quite desireable.
Neate S59.