In 4° (cm. 28,5 x 19); pagg. XI, 212; con numerose tavole fotografiche a colori f.t.; cartonatura originale e sovracopertina a colori. VG. ** Prima edizione. Prefazione di Lord John Hunt. Progetto realizzato nell’ambito della celebrazione dei 150 anni della Royal Geographic Society. "The work of a group of 70 scientists from Britain, China, Pakistan, Switzerland and the USA who visited the highest mountains in the world during the summer of 1980 to conduct a series of inter-related studies. The International Karakoram Project was an expedition that fused several individual topics in the earth sciences into a unified and single study of the world’s most chaotic, unstable landform."
