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Author Aldous, Allan, 1911-2000, author

Title McGowan climbs a mountain / by Allan Aldous ; illustrated by Miguel MacKinlay
Edition First Australian edition
Published Melbourne : Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1947
Melbourne : Geoffrey Cumberlege ;Oxford University Press, 1947

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 W'PONDS  827.03 A3645 A6/MC  AVAILABLE
Description 191 pages : illustrations, map pages ; 19 cm
Series Marcie Muir collection of Australian children's books. ANL
Summary "Mr. Allan Aldous is a new writer for boys, and in this, his first story, he has drawn a character that should win the enthusiastic approval and admiration of all young readers. Garry McGowan is a sporting journalist, who travels hither and thither about the world reporting big sporting events for a London newspaper. Learning by accident that an expedition is about to set out to attack a formidable Himalayan peak, hitherto considered unclimbable, McGowan, with some difficulty, gets himself taken on the strength. A dramatic turn is given to the climb when it becomes known that an American party, sponsored by a newspaper group, is also attempting it, and the two expeditions move out on more or less parallel lines for the summit. There are many thrills, many narrow escapes, before McGowan is able to report to the world that Kinchinga has been conquered." -- Dust jacket
Notes First published 1945 (From National Library of Australia - MS 9104 Papers of Allan Aldous)
Audience For children
Subject Adventure stories -- Juvenile fiction.
Authors, Australian.
Journalists -- Juvenile fiction.
Mountaineering -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author MacKinlay, Miguel, 1895- illustrator
OTHER TI lshaw