Buy this book on-line FIENNES**, RANULPH: : COLD: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth. **LONDON.SIMON & SCHUSTER UK Ltd.,2013. ISBN 9781471127823.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,3rd imp.[Complete number line 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4.] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,subject/author's portrait colour photographic upper panel of dw/dj,with author's capitalised,embossed,metallic red-lettered name at top edge; capitalised, embossed,glossy b/w speckled part-title,flat printed capitalised,glossy white-lettered sub-title at front's lower edge.Spine/backstrip with repeated front's colour photograph; author's flat printed,capitalised,metallic red-lettered name and capitalised,glossy b/w speckled part-title and publisher's b/w illustrated colophon to foot of same; rear panel of dw/dj with colour snowscape with 2 figures near the horizon with capitalised gold/light brown-lettered strapline/prose extract and 2 black-lettered prose paragraphs.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges bright,crisp and clean without ageing /toning or foxing; contents bright,tight,clean - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread other than my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp, clean/immaculate,sharp-cornered,original pale grey cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate Arctic+Antarctic b/w map illustrated front endpapers,a b/w North-West Passage map to rear endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,3rd imp,2-488pp [paginated] includes author's foreword,16 chapters+Afterword,16pp contemporary b/w and colour (the majority) photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp152/53 and pp328/29 respectively, Appendices (4),a Glossary of selected Snow and Ice terms, Picture Acknowledgements and an Index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and a Contents list/table. See also my book ID rja1170524 for a UK,8vo HB+dw/dj author SIGNED 1st ed,10th imp examplele of this title in my SIGNED catalogue.
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Visually,the external appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it’s 10+ year-old age.It really is an exemplary example for it’s brightnesss,cleanliness and lack of age-acquired detracting faults.
There are only few human beings who can adapt, survive and thrive in the coldest regions on earth.And below a certain temperature,death is inevitable.Sir Ranulph Fiennes has spent much of his life exploring and working in conditions of extreme cold.The loss of many of his fingers to frostbite is a testament to the horrors man is exposed to at such perilous temperatures.With the many adventures he has led over the past 40 years,testing his limits of endurance to the maximum,he deservedly holds the title of the world's greatest explorer.
Despite our technological advances,the Arctic, the Antarctic and the highest mountains on earth,remain some of the most dangerous and unexplored areas of the world.This remarkable book reveals the chequered history of man's attempts to discover and understand these remote areas of the planet,from the early voyages of discovery of Cook, Ross, Weddell, Amundsen, Shackleton and Franklin to Sir Ranulph's own extraordinary feats; from his adventuring apprenticeship on the Greenland Ice Cap,to masterminding over the past 5 years the first crossing of the Antarctic during winter,where temperatures regularly plummeted to minus 92*C.
Both historically questioning and intensely personal,'Cold' is a celebration of a life dedicated to researching and exploring some of the most hostile and brutally cold places on earth.
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