Wade Davis Preface (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Dust jacket has minor wear; tight, text clean. 160 p., fully illustrated. Published in 2002 at $45.00. Large, heavy volume. Size: 11 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches. [otob: 56r].

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. New oversize hardcover in new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. (12.3 x 0.8 x 11.25 inches) Includes full color photographs and film credits. 168 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. It's an alarming if little-known fact: one of the world's mightiest rivers, the Colorado, no longer reaches the sea. Every drop of its water is allocated to agriculture and communities along the way and none remains for the Colorado Delta at river's end, a once-thriving estuary that supported North America's most diverse biosphere. Grand Canyon: A River at Risk draws attention the river's plight as well as to the larger issue of the looming global water crisis. It follows Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading advocate for water conservation and river restoration, eminent ethnobotanist Wade Davis, and their two daughters on a rafting adventure down the Colorado. Their compelling journey illuminates both the challenges and the many opportunities that exist for conserving and restoring the world's watersheds. Combining science and adventure with glorious imagery and locations, the book delivers a message of hope and inspiration for all people of the world.

Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition, Later Printing. New and sealed in Folio Society's eco-wrapping, as received directly from the publisher. Stock images used. Two books in slipcase. Bound in printed and blocked cloth. Blue endpapers. Silver page tops. Volume 1: 536 pages with 268 colour and black & white photographs including 2 fold-out panoramas (one 6 page, one 4 page); Volume 2: 208 pages and 2 maps. Landscape format measuring 9¼'' x 10¾''. Housed in a pictorial slipcase. COMPILED, written and edited by Peter Gillman for The Folio Society, 'Everest: From Reconnaissance to Summit' is an exclusive record of five key expeditions to the summit of the world, using spectacular photography and reportage from the men who went there. Marking the 100th anniversary of the earliest British reconnaissance in 1921, it also covers the first attempt on the summit in 1922 and the tragic 1924 expedition that claimed the lives of Mallory and Irvine. It shows how the mountain proved unconquerable by a new generation of climbers in 1933, before the triumphant ascent of Hillary and Tenzing in 1953. THE FIRST VOLUME, 'A Photographic History,' collects 268 of the most remarkable mountain photographs ever taken, including breathtaking panoramas, steep gorges, glaciers, ice-fields, pinnacles and close-ups of the ascents. The men's testimony makes up THE SECOND VOLUME, 'An Eyewitness History', in articles and dispatches, memoirs, official reports and private letters, each accompanied by a commentary by Gillman. 'Everest' is introduced by Wade Davis - an authority on the early expeditions. The preface is from Jan Morris, last surviving member of the 1953 expedition until her death in 2020. HEAVY/OVERSIZE. U.K. postage at default rate but international buyers will be asked for extra. Enquiries welcome. ORDERS professionally packed, tracked and insured. U.S. BUYERS: Books remain exempt from import duty under U.S. law. I ship with a DDP service and provide accurate customs forms to protect buyers from unnecessary charges and to minimise delays.