Published by New York Chilton Co, 1963. 3rd Edition. pp525. Very good slightly worn grey cloth covers. Near fine and scarce pictorial dust jacket. Internally fine. Black and white ills. Previous owners' ink address on the front free end paper. Also Ink stamp of The Healthy Planet. Several newspaper articles loosely inserted. In ink on the bottom text block, Yeti Sanderson. Scarce.
The 1921 British Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition set out from India to find a route to, and hopefully up, the world’s highest mountain, but on their return the team had more to report than the successes of their recce. Interviewed by journalist Henry Newman, they spoke of coming across large footprints in the snow. Expedition leader Charles Howard-Bury concluded that they had been made by the loping of a wolf; local guides and porters, however, said they belonged to the legendary metoh-kangmi, roughly translating as ‘man-bear snowman’.
An intrigued Newman spoke to some of the Tibetans who saw the humanesque footprints, and stories emerged of a mysterious, wild creature stomping across the Himalayas. Now fascinated, he needed an eye-catching name for the newspapers, since his mistranslation of metoh meant he thought it was called ‘filthy snowman’. He came up with something far more evocative: the abominable snowman. ( historyextra.com/period/general-history/yeti-real-history-legend-abominable-snowman)
- Jacket Condition: Near Fine
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 8vo
