Blank on the map,

by Eric Shipton

First edition. Foreword by T. G. Longstaff. Good condition. Former reference library book, with usual markings ans stampings. As a reference book, it was never taken off the premises. General wear to all edges of black boards. General wear and rubbing to book. Otherwise corners sharp and pages tight, crisp and clean. Map completely intact.

Genres: Climbing, Adventure

Hardcover

First published December 17, 2014

About the author

Eric Earle Shipton, CBE (1 August 1907 – 28 March 1977), was an English Himalayan mountaineer.
Shipton was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1907 where his father, a tea planter, died before he was three years old. When he was eight, his mother brought him to London for his education. When he failed the entrance exam to Harrow School, his mother sent him to Pyt House School in Wiltshire. His first encounter with mountains was at 15 when he visited the Pyrenees with his family. The next summer he spent travelling in Norway with a school friend and within a year he had begun climbing seriously.

Shipton, Eric. Nanda Devi. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1936.
Shipton, Eric. Blank on the map. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1938.
Shipton, Eric. Upon That Mountain. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1943.
Shipton, Eric. The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1952.
Shipton, Eric. Mountains of Tartary. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1953.
Shipton, Eric. Land of Tempest. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1963.
Shipton, Eric. That Untravelled World. Charles Scribner and Sons, 1969. ISBN 0-340-04330-X (Hodder & Stoughton (1969))
Shipton, Eric. Tierra del Fuego: the Fatal Lodestone. Charles Knight & Co., London, 1973 ISBN 0-85314-194-0
Shipton, Eric. The Six Mountain-Travel Books. Mountaineers' Books, 1997. ISBN 0-89886-539-5 (A collection of the first six books listed – That Untravelled World duplicated much of the previous content.)

Reviews

[Santanu Dutta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Blank on the Map by Shipton, Eric., E


A nice read. Altogether nice and smooth read like the flow of a hilly torrent as narrated by the author in many a occasions. The book chronicles the detail survey in the northernmost British Indian Frontier in central Asia and near the Pamir.

[Chai Eng · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastic book... Loved it.

[Abhirup Bose · Rating 5 out of 5]

A exquisite account of exploration in karrakorams