The Throne Of The Gods.
Publisher
The Macmillan Company.
Place
New York
Date
1939
Synopsis
An account of the first swiss expedition to the himalayas. by arnold heim and august ganser. translated by eden and cedar paul. with 220 plates in photogravure, 18 sketches in the text, 11 musical items, 2 panoramas and 1 relief map.
Item Description
Large 8vo. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. xxv + [i] + 233 + [3] pp. Illustrated by 120 pages of photographic plates, 2 folding panoramas, coloured folding map in pocket at end and by 18 text figures, including 9 musical items. Detailed and well illustrated account of the Swiss Himalaya Expedition of 1936, first published in German as Thron der Gotter in 1939. By two Swiss geologists and explorers, Arnold Albert Heim (1882-1965), the expedition leader and Augusto Gansser (1910-2012)
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