Freshfield, Douglas W.

Below the Snow Line.

London, Bombay, Sydney, Constable and Company Limited, 1923. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. VII, 270 pages. 9 maps. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Blind tooling to head and heel of front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Foxing to bookblock edges and on preliminary pages. Interior otherwise bright and clean. Name of preowner on front endpaper.

Includes, for example, the following: The Maritime Alps – The Coast in Winter – The Northern Glens / Midsummer in Corsica / Sketches from the Apennines – The Pania Della Croce / Classical Climbs / The Kabyle Highlands / By-corners in Savoy / Byways in Japan / The Mountains of the Moon / Index etc.

Douglas William Freshfield (27 April 1845 – 9 February 1934) was a British lawyer, mountaineer and author, who edited the Alpine Journal from 1872 to 1880. He was an active member of the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club and served as President of both organizations. He was also the first President of the Geographical Association, being one of the people at the first meeting where the Association was founded. He served from 1897–1911, the longest serving President in the history of the Association. (Wikipedia)
Freshfield was an accomplished mountaineer. On an expedition to the central Caucasus Mountains (1868), he made the first ascent of Mt. Elbrus (18,510 feet [5,642 metres]), the highest peak in the range and in Russia west of the Ural Mountains. In 1899 he led an expedition that circumnavigated the Himalayan mountain Kanchenjunga (28,169 feet [8,586 metres]), and in 1905 he made a failed attempt to climb the Ruwenzori Range in Central Africa. (Encyclopaedia Britannica)

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120241AB