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Hardcover:
9780674047990 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 14, 2013, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The history of mountaineering has long served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant.
Hardcover:
9780756686826 | Dk Pub, September 19, 2011, cover price $40.00
Hardcover:
9781554074037, titled "First Ascent: Pioneering Mountain Climbs" | Firefly Books Ltd, September 12, 2008, cover price $45.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781433207464 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2007), cover price $108.00 | About this edition: Traces the mountaineering achievements of Chris Bonington's team over the course of four decades, citing the contributions of some of the group's most famous members while recounting how numerous climbers lost their lives, in an account based on journal entries, expedition accounts, letters, and interviews with team survivors.
9781433207471 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Traces the mountaineering achievements of Chris Bonington's team over the course of four decades, citing the contributions of some of the group's most famous members while recounting how numerous climbers lost their lives, in an account based on journal entries, expedition accounts, letters, and interviews with team survivors.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781433207457 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2007), cover price $89.95
Tells the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. This book presents a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement and heart- breaking loss. It is based on interviews with surviving climbers and other individuals, and journals, expedition accounts, and letters.
Hardcover:
9781861059802 | Gardners Books, October 26, 2006, cover price $26.25 | About this edition: Tells the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent.
9780786715794 | Da Capo Pr, September 14, 2006, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Traces the mountaineering achievements of Chris Bonington's team over the course of four decades, citing the contributions of some of the group's most famous members while recounting how numerous climbers lost their lives, in an account based on journal entries, expedition accounts, letters, and interviews with team survivors.
Paperback:
9780786720248 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, October 25, 2007), cover price $18.00
Miscellaneous:
9780786732777 | Da Capo Pr, April 29, 2009, cover price $18.00
Paperback:
9780375714061 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 2004), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Examining the powerful and fateful influence of mountains on the human imagination and spirit, an accomplished climber explains why individuals are drawn to mountains, both as a source of remarkable natural beauty and as a challenge that must be overcome.
Hardcover:
9781929173136 | Appalachian Mountain Club, November 1, 2002, cover price $22.95
Paperback:
9781929173426 | Appalachian Mountain Club, October 1, 2003, cover price $14.95
Hardcover:
9780375421808 | Pantheon Books, June 1, 2003, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Examining the influence of mountains on the human imagination and spirit, an accomplished climber explains why individuals are drawn to mountains, both as a source of remarkable beauty and as a challenge that must be overcome.
Hardcover:
9780970414359 | Old City Pub Inc, April 1, 2003, cover price $36.00
9780070596658, titled "Principles of Spinal Surgery" | McGraw-Hill Healthcare, June 1, 1995, cover price N/A
| also contains Principles of Spinal Surgery | About this edition: This comprehensive treatise focuses on step-by-step surgical management of the spine as performed by the neurosurgeon.
| also contains Principles of Spinal Surgery | About this edition: This comprehensive treatise focuses on step-by-step surgical management of the spine as performed by the neurosurgeon.
Paperback:
9780306812262 | Da Capo Pr, March 26, 2003, cover price $16.95
Hardcover:
9780306811296 | Da Capo Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: An account of the pioneers of mountain climbing traces a century of human accomplishment from the first Victorian enthusiasts to the scaling of the Himalayan peaks, highlighting achievements on such mountains as the Matterhorn, McKinley, Everest, and K-2.
Hardcover:
9780299170004 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This engaging analysis of twentieth-century imperialism takes early mountaineering beyond the realm of recreation.
Paperback:
9780299170042 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: History meets high-altitude adventureThis engaging analysis of twentieth-century imperialism takes early mountaineering beyond the realm of recreation.
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Hardcover:
9780898867275 | Mountaineers Books, August 1, 2000, cover price $29.95
Hardcover:
9781579120412 | Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, October 1, 1998, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Leads mountain climbers and armchair adventurers to the peaks of the fifty most awesome mountains in the world, detailing their geography, profiling their most famous climbers, and capturing them in photographs
Hardcover:
9780898864168 | Mountaineers Books, September 1, 1994, cover price $32.00
Paperback:
9780898864960 | Mountaineers Books, July 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This book encompasses the rich, broad spectrum of adventure that is mountain climbing, in a remarkable selection of first-hand accounts - most never before published - by 40 of the foremost mountaineers of modern times.
This comprehensive treatise focuses on step-by-step surgical management of the spine as performed by the neurosurgeon. Spine surgery is now a major part of the neurosurgeon's workload. In full detail, the authors review surgical techniques, including spinal fusion. The text is written from the neurosurgeon's perspective, as it addresses management, complications and follow-up care.
Hardcover:
9780070596627 | McGraw-Hill Healthcare, June 1, 1996, cover price $295.00 | also contains Rock Goes Classic: Rock Favorites for Classical Guitar
9780079120434 | McGraw-Hill, December 1, 1995, cover price $325.00 | About this edition: This comprehensive treatise focuses on step-by-step surgical management of the spine as performed by the neurosurgeon.
9780070596658 | McGraw-Hill Healthcare, June 1, 1995, cover price N/A
| also contains Invisible on Everest: Innovations and the Gear Makers | About this edition: This comprehensive treatise focuses on step-by-step surgical management of the spine as performed by the neurosurgeon.
| also contains Invisible on Everest: Innovations and the Gear Makers | About this edition: This comprehensive treatise focuses on step-by-step surgical management of the spine as performed by the neurosurgeon.
Hardcover:
9780563209188 | Bbc Pubns, October 1, 1994, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Mountaineering has always demanded a fine balancing act between calculated risk-taking and the basic instinct for survival.
Hardcover:
9780898863796 | Mountaineers Books, May 1, 1994, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "Hold the Heights" adds a reassessment of the late Victorians, examines the important influence of the Munich School and considers the Americas' separate development in detail.
Paperback:
9781878067203 | Seal Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays by some of the most prominent women climbers in recent history, tributing their struggles against social obstacles in order to pursue their passion for climbing
Product Description: Book by Birkett, Bill, Peascod, Bill
Paperback:
9780898862409 | Mountaineers Books, April 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Book by Birkett, Bill, Peascod, Bill
Paperback:
9780671682767 | Revised edition (Touchstone Books, October 1, 1989), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Emotional, physical, aesthetic and historical aspects of mountain living as perceived by a reporter/climber with profiles of adventures and dangers encountered by skiers and climbers in France's Chamonix Valley
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