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Author:	Edmund Hillary
Co-authors:	Desmond Doig
Title:	High In The Thin Cold Air
Publisher:	Hodder & Stoughton
Country:	UK
Date:	1963
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Travel, Science
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ppint. 2nd Nov 2020		Review account of an expedition to find, examine, describe and, where both possible and sensible, obtain examples of himalayan, and especially nepali, wildlife up to and possibly including the yeti°, and to deliver and see erected (and perhaps established) an effectively corrosion-proof aluminium building provided by field enterprises educational corporation to house a school to be run by the nepalese and for the nepalese - education being one of the things very dear to sir edmund's heart, not least for the greatly increased horizons and opportunities it could offer both adults and children of the people of nepal, and which he could help provide. (° people of and behind the expedition were not necessarily of one mind, to start with, as to whether any examples of the yeti they might come across should, or should not be caged and ''returned'' to ''civilisation''... views depending not least upon whether the yeti was, or was not a self-aware being.) an entertaining, as well as an educational read - not least, as regarding the in many ways very different world of the middle and late fifties (- of which the early sixties were really a part -) and an antidote to too many englishmen (sir edmund was a new zealander) 's assumption of superiority & imperial privileges. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



ppint. 2nd Nov 2020		my thanks to the wasdale head inn for the opportunity to read & bookcat-alogue their copy, kept in the quiet comfortable room (or possibly, the comfortable room).



ppint. 2nd Nov 2020		first hodder & stoughton h/cvr, first edition copyright © 1962 by field enterprises educational corporate publishers of world book encyclopedia cover (d-j) photographic cover (d-j) price 30s net 288pp. including titles, indica, 2pp. preface by sir edmund hillary, expedition leader, 2pp. table-of-contents, 3pp. list of illustrations, 1p. roster of the expedition etc, index, sewn in signatures and bound with map-bearing endpapers between grey cloth-covered boards

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