Over The Whitcombe Pass

Author: Jakob Lauper edited by John Pascoe

Stock information

General Fields

  • : $37.50 NZD
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  • : Whitcombe & Tombs
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  • : January 1960
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  • : Christchurch
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  • : Jakob Lauper edited by John Pascoe
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  • : Softback
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  • : 70
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  • : Black and white photographs
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Barcode D978021008800
D978021008800

Local Description

Fair small softcover with wear to spine and extremities.

Description

In 1863 John Henry Whitcombe and the Swiss guide Jakob Lauper made a pioneering and demanding thirteen day journey across the Southern Alps that ended with Whitcombe's death by drowning. This is Lauper's narrative reprinted from the Canterbury Provincial Gazette.