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Synopsis

Seventh impression.

Item Description

8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 221 + [1] pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. Small ink stain on lower page edges and traces of marginal foxing; otherwise a very good copy. !987 signature by author on title page. Illustrated by 16 pages of black and white plates and by 5 maps in text. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. An account of a hazardous river exploration of the remote Rocky Mountain Trench of the British Columbia hinterland. By Ranulph Fiennes (b.1944), former soldier and expedition leader. First published 1973.