Mick Bowie - The Hermitage Years

In his lifetime Mick Bowie has become a legend; but he has set his biographer a hard task, for he is a man of few words and almost excessive personal modesty so that his wife Nan, who set her self the task of recording his Hermitage years, has had in many parts to rely on the memories of those who climbed with Mick and became his lifelong friends and admirers.

With a modesty equal to her husband's, Mrs Bowie has given no monr than an occasional hint of her own contribution to the story of the family's life. Yet, from the pages of this book there emerges a most remarkable, adventurous, and entertaining record of a couple of rare courage and humour.

Those climbers and trampers who, today, enjoy the splendid services of tracks and huts and guiding available in the Mount Cook area will discover, in these pages, how much they owe to the selfless, continuing work of Mick Bowie and his wife.

- from the dust jacket.

Mick Bowie - The Hermitage Years
Nan Bowie
A.H. & A.W. Reed
Wellington
1969
First edition.
Hardback.
Light blue board with dark blue titles on spine.
191 pages.
Ex-library.
Reasonable second hand condition.
Binding is a bit loose but still intact.
Endpapers, front and back have been removed.
Moderate foxing and library markings throughout.
Dust jacket shelf worn, has a small tear on the back inside flap, library stickers on spine, and discolouration from adhesive tape. Otherwise good condition.