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Mountain N'Air Books, 1993 - Sports & Recreation - 128 pages

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On MountaIns MountaIneers
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Sir Leslie Stephen
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Geoffrey Winthrop Young
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TitleOn mountains and mountaineers
AuthorMikel Vause
Editionillustrated
PublisherMountain N'Air Books, 1993
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized9 Oct 2008
ISBN1879415062, 9781879415065
Length128 pages
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