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FROM THE OCEAN TO THE SKY
Published by Viking Press, NY, 1979
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Condition: Near Fine
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NY: Viking Press, 1979 - First Edition/2nd printing - Very Good+ hardcover/near Fine dust jacket - 9" tall - b\w map endpapers (course of the Ganges) - color and b\w photos, b\w maps - faint foxing to top edge, o/w as new with no markings - dust jacket has light wear at top of front flap - appendices: trip diary; Ganga and Hinduism; river levation /distance chart; jet boats; glossary - index - 273pp. 0-670-33172-4 Hillary's account of his 1977 expedition up the length of the Ganges river from its delta in the Bay of Bengal to near its source in the Himalayas. Seller Inventory # IH062603
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Title: FROM THE OCEAN TO THE SKY
Publisher: Viking Press, NY
Publication Date: 1979
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
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Dust jacket notes: "'For more than five years I had dreamed of a new adventure,' writes Sir Edmund Hillary, 'to travel with a group of friends from the mouth of the Ganges River upstream against the current as far as we could go...up into the mountains where the river had its beginnings.' In 1977 the 'Ocean to Sky' expedition turned that dream into reality; this is Hillary's own dramatic record of that journey. The 1500-mile-long trek provided as many challenges as the conqueror of Everest and his crew had imagined, from powering jet boats up treacherous rapids to the ultimate test of climbing Akash Parbat, above which, according to Hindu tradition, the lord Shiva received the celestial stream of Ganga into the matted locks of his hair. Hillary's narrative, supplemented with excerpts from his crew's journals and many photographs, captures the excitement and danger of the expedition...."
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