Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta H. W. Tilman
yhteensä 35 hakutulosta
Ascent of Nanda Devi
In 1934, after fifty years of trying, mountaineers finally gained access to the Nanda Devi Sanctuary in the Garhwal Himalaya. Two years later an expedition led by H.W. Tilman …
Triumph and Tribulation Paperback
The circumnavigation of Spitsbergen is the first of three voyages described in H.W. Tilman's final book. Triumph and Tribulation closes his literary legacy, a testament to a …
In Mischief's Wake Paperback
In Mischief's Wake gives H.W. Tilman's account of the loss of Mischief, the pilot cutter in which he had sailed over 100,000 miles to high latitudes in both Arctic and Antarctic …
Mischief Among the Penguins Paperback
Mischief among the Penguins is H.W. Tilman's account of his voyage to the Southern Ocean island groups of Crozet and Kerguelen, on his fifty-year-old wooden pilot cutter Mischief.
China to Chitral
In China to ChitralH.W. 'Bill' Tilman completes one of his great post-war journeys. He travels from Central China, crossing Sinkiang, the Gobi and Takla Makan Deserts, before …
Two Mountains and a River
H.W. Tilman's Two Mountains and a River picks up where Mount Everest 1938 left off. In this instalment of adventures, Tilman and two Swiss mountaineers set off for the Gilgit …
Mischief goes South
'No sea voyage can be dull for a man who has an eye for the ever-changing sea and sky, the waves, the wind and the way of a ship upon the water.'So observes H.W. 'Bill' Tilman in …
Ion Transport in Vertebrate Colon
Studies on the colon not only serve medical interest or clinical purposes, but are also a highly interesting subject of comparative physiology, from which we can learn much about …
Mount Everest 1938: Whether These Mountains are Climbed or Not, Smaller Expeditions are a Step in the Right Direction
'Whether these mountains are climbed or not, smaller expeditions are a step in the right direction.' It's 1938, the British have thrown everything they've got at Everest but …
Mostly Mischief
'However many times it has been done, the act of casting off the warps and letting go one's last hold of the shore at the start of a voyage has about it something solemn and …
Ice with Everything: In Climbing Mountains or Sailing the Seas One Often Has to Settle for Less Than One Hoped
H.W. Tilman's book Ice with Everything describes three voyages that attempt to reach East Greenland's Scoresby Sound, 'the first comparatively humdrum, the second totally …
Mischief in Patagonia
'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of Patagonia, a place where, one was told, …