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Peter Graham: Mountain Guide

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An Autobiography

By Peter Graham,  Edited by H.B. Hewitt,  Foreword and Epilogue by John Pascoe

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Published by George Allen and Unwin, London, and AH & AW Reed, New Zealand, 1965, 1st UK Edition, cl. a little dull and very light foxing on spine, D/w (foxing on inside of dustwrapper), from the library of Geoff Milburn (with his signature and address label), V.G.   Peter Graham made significant first ascents in the Southern Alps of New Zealand over a 30 year period during  the first flowering of New Zealand alpine climbing, 1894-1928. He was Head Guide at the Hermitage, Mount Cook, and began his autobiography late in life – he had got as far as 1910 when he died, literally pen in hand. His story is completed by the outstanding alpine writer and photographer John Pascoe.

 

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