Quest for Adventure: Remarkable Feats of Exploration and Adventure 1950-2000.

BONINGTON, Chris.

$200.00

Item Number: 111431

London: Casell and Company, 2000.

First edition of this work by Bonington. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Signed by Chris Bonington on the half-title page. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fossett was also one of sailing’s most prolific distance record holders set the Absolute World Speed Record for airships with a Zeppelin NT in 2004. He received numerous awards and honors throughout his career including aviation’s highest award, the Gold Medal of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), which he was awarded in 2002. Fossett disappeared on September 3, 2007 while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example with noted provenance.

One of the world's leading mountaineers celebrates twenty of the great adventures of the twentieth century in a richly illustrated volume that ranges from an account of Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon to a chronicle of Sir Edmund Hillary's conquest of Everest.