Travel
GREEN, William Spotswood
The High Alps of New Zealand. Or a Trip to the Glaciers of the Antipodes With an Ascent of Mount Cook.
Macmillian & Co., London 1883. First edition. 8vo. (20 x 13,5cm), xiv, 350, 32 (pubs. advts.) pp., frontispiece, tissue-guard, 2 maps, one folding, original red cloth gilt, stamped on lower edge, traces of labels removed on endpapers, spine slightly chipped, inner upper hinge cracked but firm, very clean inside; overall an attractive copy.
Account of the Rev. Green's expedition to the Southern Alps. He attempted to climbe Mount Cook but was forced to turn back before setting foot on the actual summit. William Spotswood Green (1847-1919) was an Irish civil servant. 'His uncompleted ascent, by a route which was not finished until many years later, marks the start of high alpine climbing in New Zealand, [Neate]. Neate G51.
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