SOME ACCOUNT OF CHAMOUNIX AND MONT BLANC 1837 Alpine Climbs Described & Pondered
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TITLE: Some Account of Chamouni and Mont Blanc. [In three parts, Saturday Magazine]
AUTHOR: [not signed]
PUBLISHER: London: John William Parker
DATE: June, September, November 1837
EDITION: Vol. 10 No. 320 + No. 337 + No. 347
DESCRIPTION: Complete story in three, eight page numbers variously paginated 28cm, well illustrated with wood engravings.
CONDITION NOTES: VERY GOOD. Detached from a larger volume, else FINE and COMPLETE with minor spotting and a chip from the fore edge of final number.
BINDING: Loose pages, articles.
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An unsigned survey of travel literature and Mount Blanc climbing accounts.
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The third part concludes with a few paragraphs addressed to Englishmen who may be considering attempts to climb the peak:
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"It is quite obvious that the man who attempts it must not only make up his mind to undergo sufferings, such as he hardly ever can have experienced before, and certainly never could wish, while in his sound senses, to experience again, - but even be perfectly prepared to meet death itself in the adventure."
