George Abraham ( 1872 - 1965 ) The Complete Mountaineer
London: Methuen, 1907. xvi, 493pp, 75 plates, illus., 23cm.
Instructional work.
George Abraham Modern Mountaineering
London: Methuen, 1933. x, 198pp, 16 plates, illus., 20cm.
Reviews the state of rock-climbing, snow and ice craft and mountaineering in Britain and the Alps as it was in the 30's.
Chris Bonington (gen. ed.) & Audrey Salkeld (ed) Great Climbs
London: Mitchell Beazley, 1995.
224pp, illus. throughout with colour and black and white photographs, maps, 30cm.
Leading mountaineers of today give personal accounts of climbing in the great mountain ranges of the world.
Ronald Clark The Victorian Mountaineers
London: Batsford, 1953. 232pp, 31 plates, illus., 23cm.
History and character study of leading British Victorian mountaineers and dicussion of the motives which led them to climb mountains.
Ronald W. Clark and Edward C. Pyatt Mountaineering in Britain
London: Phoenix, 1957. 288pp, 104 black and white photographs, extensive bibliography, 25cm.
A history from the earliest times to 1957. It includes many historic photographs.
Cleare, John (Photography by) Distant Mountains
London: Duncan Baird Publishers, 1998. 176pp, colour plates, 29cm.
A collection of eleven essays by Nicholas Crane, W.M.Conway, W.H.Murray, David Harris, Steve Roper, John Cleare, Mike Banks, Kurt Diemberger, Jim Perrin, Kev Reynolds, H.W.Tilman illustrated with more than 150 colour images by one of mountaineering's most prestigious photographers.
John Cleare Mountains
London: Macmillan, 1977.
Soft cover reprint, 256pp, 23cm.
Leo Dickinson Filming the Impossible
London: Nationwide Book Service (by arrangement with Jonathan Cape),1982.
256pp, colour plates, 26cm.
The great adventure film maker at work.
Leo Dickinson Anything is Possible
London: Jonathan Cape, 1989. 224pp, colour plates, 25cm.
More adventures of the celebrated action film maker.
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Ron Fawcett and John Beatty Fawcett on Rock
London: Unwin Hyman, 1987. 158pp, 40 colour action photographs, followed by the techniques section illus. throughout with black and white photographs, 27cm.
One of Britain's leading rock climbers of the 70's and 80's explains (in conversations with Mike Harrison) the techniques he has developed and gives advice on the training methods which were so important to his success. Introduction by Jim Perrin.
Peter Gillman In Balance
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1989.
Twenty years of mountaineering journalism.
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Francis Keenlyside Peaks and Pioneers
London: Elek, 1975. 248pp, illus. throughout with mostly black and white photographs, 4 maps, 30cm.
A superb picture history.
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Gwen Moffat Two Star Red
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1964. xviii, 206pp, 16 plates, illus., maps, 21cm.
A history of various R.A.F. mountain rescue teams in Britain and elsewhere.
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Audrey Salkeld (gen. ed.) World Mountaineering
London: Mitchell Beazley, 1998. 304pp, illus. throughout with colour and black and white photographs, diagrams, maps, 30cm.
A detailed history and description of all the world's great mountains with contributions from many celebrated mountaineers and mountain photographers. Foreword by Chris Bonington.
Doug Scott Big Wall Climbing
London: Kaye and Ward, 1974. xii, 348pp, illus. throughout with black and white photographs, diagrams, maps, 20.5cm.
A history of big wall climbing world-wide. The book also includes much information on the techniques and equipment required.
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Walt Unsworth Encyclopaedia of Mountaineering
London: Robert Hale / New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975. 272pp, 16 plates, illus., maps, 24cm.
A major attempt to survey the world wide mountaineering scene with more than a thousand entries relating to mountains, climbers and their techniques.
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