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Wallace, Gordon Random Journey: Selections from the Notebook of a Longtime Wanderer [*SIGNED*]
New York Vantage Press (c.1979) 0-533-03737-9 / 9780533037377 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good dj
[solid copy, very light shelfwear; jacket shows some minor spotting, wrinkling and light surface/edge wear, sunned at spine]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. "The book is a series of accounts of [the author's] adventures over the years, narrated in chronological order, beginning with his first summer as a nineteen-year-old tenderfoot working at a forest ranger station, [followed by] his first adventure as a mountain climber in Mexico when he challenged to the 18,000-foot Popocatepetl and succeeded. The chapters following tell of [his] experiences in World War II in Europe, his later stay in Japan where he made the ascent of Mount Fuji, and his journey among the native tribes of New Guinea. He concludes with his trek through northern Pakistan and his successful attempt at age sixty-five to meet his most severe challenge, climbing across 200 miles of Nepal to the base of Mount Everest." Signed by Author
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