From the Ocean to the Sky: Jet Boating Up the Ganges

Hodder and Stoughton, 1979 - 1st edition, discolouring to dustjacket, foxing to page edges, previous owner's name in blue ink at top of front endpaper.

When Sir Edmund Hillary and his New Zealand and Indian team planned a jet boating expedition up the Ganges from the Bay of Bengal to its Himalayan source, they knew they would have all the excitment they could desire or handle in the wild white water rapids of the upper reaches, and some satisfying climbing beyond in a part of the world long dear to the author.

- from the dust jacket.