SHIPTON, Eric.

Blank on the map.

Stock Code

106151

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1938

£3,500

Shipton's scarcest and most important work with a personal inscription to his wife Diana.

This book describes an expedition which explored and mapped a section of the Karakoram Range, north of Kashmir, called the Shaksgam area, or the 'Blank on the map'. The expedition was led by Shipton and included the famous mountaineer H.W. Tilman who became a regular climbing companion of Shipton and also two scientists M.A. Spender and J.B. Auden. The journey lasted five months and they managed to map 1,800 square miles. A remarkable feat.

This copy has a very personal association as it belonged to Eric Shipton's wife Diana Kendall Channer whom he married in 1942.

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First edition. 8vo (23.5 x 16 cm), xv, 299pp., inscribed by author in ink on front free endpaper 'To Diana with love from Eric', 50 illustrations on 36 plates, 3 maps, including folding map at rear, small tear not affecting the image at join, bookplate, slight foxing to the fore-edge; publisher's black cloth lettered in red, some wear to the corners; a very good copy.