Yunnan 1938

Description

Privately printed in Oxford by Vivian Ridler at the Oxford University Press, 1971, Publisher’s original printed wrappers, 1st Edition, 88pp, 8 plates after photographs, 2 sketch maps in text, cloth slight marks and slight fading, V.G.   Signed on the title page by the author “With compliments, Dora H De Beer 1971”.   De Beer was part of a group of mountaineers who travelled from Burma to China and made 2 attempts on Satsito, the snowy mountain of Li-Kiang. The team, of New Zealand and Australian climbers, was led by Marie Byles (author of By Cargo Boat and Mountain) and included Mick Bowie, head guide at the Hermitage.