The Forbidden Frontiers

Description

Published by Hamish Hamilton, 1970, 1st, D/w (slight wear edges), Nr. Fine.   Aimed at older children though a perfectly good adult read, this is the history of the challenging and often hazardous work undertaken, particularly in the Himalayan mountains, over almost 200 years to complete the Survey of an area twenty-seven times larger than England and Wales.  Showell Styles (1908-2005) was an English mountaineer and prolific author of both fiction and non-fiction.