A study of nieve penitente in Himalaya. Paper no. 2 . Reprinted from the 'Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde,' May 1909, with some additions

Published by Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd, [London], 1909

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8vo, pp. 27, [1]; 21 photographic plates; original printed wrappers with some cracking at the bottom on the spine, but generally a very good copy. Inscribed at the top of the front wrapper: "M. Le Baron Hulot avec les sentiments distingues de William Hunter Workman. Etienne Gabriel Joseph Hulot (1857-1918) was a French geographer, group secretary at the Geographical Society in Paris, and was involved in scientific experimentation and its applications, in 1909 alongside Henri Farjas in the context of the founding of a radium bank." Wikipedia informs us that the nieve penitente are snow or ice formations that look like penitents or nazarenos. They are made up of thin, tall blades of snow or ice that point towards the sun and are spaced closely together. The name comes from the resemblance of a field of penitentes to a crowd of people kneeling in penance. Nine in OCLC, only Colorado, Wisconsin, and the Sierra Club in the US.

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Title
A study of nieve penitente in Himalaya. Paper no. 2 . Reprinted from the 'Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde,' May 1909, with some additions
Author
Workman, William Hunter
Publisher
Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd, [London]
Publication year
1909
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