Mountain Heroes: Portraits of Adventure Condition:Good The original "Travels of Ibn

The original "Travels of Ibn Battuta" ranks highly amongst the masterpieces of Arabic geographical literature and is of great significance in the understanding of the history of the peoples inhabiting the Central Asian states

With fascinating sidebars

John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty percent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as offences and abominations

Few people have ever left their mark on one character quite the way Walter Simonson has

It is his only major work on typography and remains indispensable for anyone interested in the art of letter forms and the presentation of graphic information

Mountain Heroes: Portraits of Adventure Condition:Good The original "Travels of IbnCome face to face in this collection of portraits with those who have spent their lives at altitude: explorers and mapmakers, pioneering travellers and film makers, ice climbers and extreme skiers, geologists and glaciologists, and the peoples of the mountains themselves.