Pushing His Luck: Report of the Expedition and Death of Henry Whitcombe, by Jakob Lauper

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Pushing His Luck: Report of the Expedition and Death of Henry Whitcombe, by Jakob LauperPushing His Luck Report of the Expedition and Death of Henry Whitcombe, by Jakob Lauper, Hilary Low. Publisher: Canterbury University Press, 2010. Near new softback, some minor shelf wear, no inscriptions. 142 pages, illustrated. In 1863 Henry Whitcombe, a young civil engineer and Canterbury's Provincial Road Surveyor, led an expedition to find a route across the Southern Alps in advance of the West Coast gold rushes. Jakob Lauper, a hardy Swiss

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