Whymper, Edward (1840–1911)

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Review

The fatal descent of the mountain-climbing memoir

By Bruce Barcott

SEE ALSO: Beyond the limits: a woman's triumph on Everest (Book); Whymper, Edward; Eiger dreams: ventures among mountains and men (Book); Simpson, Joe; Tasker, Joe; Krakauer, Jon; Whittaker, Lou; Memoirs of a mountain guide (Book); Mountaineering; Mountaineers; Boardman, Peter; Messner, Reinhold; Reinhold Messner, free spirit: a climber's life (Book); Scrambles amongst the Alps (Book); Allison, Stacy; The Boardman Tasker omnibus (Book); This game of ghosts (Book)

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Editor's literary record/Review

Editor's literary record

SEE ALSO: American historical record, and repertory of notes and queries concerning the history and antiquities of American and biography of Americans (Book); Warner, Anna Bartlett; Trollope, Anthony; Lossing, Benson John; California: for health, pleasure, and residence. A book for travellers and settlers (Book); Nordhoff, Charles; Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock; Drops of water: peoms (Book); Eggleston, Edward; Whymper, Edward; Pollard, Eliza F.; Wilcox, Ella Wheeler; Foster, Elon; Gardening by myself (Book); MacDonald, George; History of New York city from the discovery to the present day (Book); Hope deferred (Book); Hours of exercise in the Alps (Book); Is it true? (Book); Gladstone, J.H. (John Hall); Lincoln, Jeanie Gould; Tyndall, John; Merriwether, Lide; Marjorie's quest (Book); Michael Faraday (Book); New cyclopedia of poetical illustrations (Book); Principles of geology; or, The modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology (Book); Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860-'69 (Book); Lyell, Charles, Sir; Soundings (Book); The adventures of a brownie as told to my child (Book); The end of the world (Book); The Eustace diamonds. A novel (Book); The vicar's daughter, an autobiographical story (Book); Stone, William Leete

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Article (Art/illus. appearing within)

Shoe-maker and naturalist

By S S Conant

December 2009

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPERFRAUD
Why the Hudson River Will Never Run Clean
By David Gargill

THE MASTER OF SPIN BOLDAK
Undercover with Afghanistan’s Drug-Trafficking Border Police
By Matthieu Aikins

MERMAID FEVER
A story by Steven Millhauser

UNDERSTANDING OBAMACARE
By Luke Mitchell

Also: Dave Hickey and Wendell Berry