User:Qwrk/Sandbox/K2 books reworked

[this seriously needs to be updated]

[taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2#Books_on_K2]


Books on K2 (Expeditions listed as per Curran) edit

1856 -   British - Montgomerie


1861 -   British - Godwin-Austen


1887 -   British - Younghusband


1889 -   Polish - Grombczewski


1890 -   Italian - Lerco


1892 -   British - Conway


1902 - International - Eckenstein and Crowley


1909 -   Italian - Luigi Amedeo


1929 -   Italian - Aimone di Savoia-Aosta


1937 -   British - Shipton


1938 -   American - Houston


1939 -   American - Wiessner

  • Jennifer Jordan, Last Man on the Mountain, 2010, (not in Yakushi), (Yet to be published, due August 2010)
  • Andrew Kauffman and William Putnam, K2; The 1939 Tragedy, 1992, (Yakushi K66), (  edition)
  • Andrew Kauffman and William Putnam, K2; The 1939 Tragedy, 1992, (Yakushi K66), (  edition)
  • Fritz Wiessner, K2, Tragödien und Sieg am Zweithöchsten Berg der Erde, 1955, (Yakushi W152), (  edition only)


1953 -   American - Houston


1953 -   Italian - Cassin


1954 -   Italian - Desio


1960 -   German /   American - Hackett



  1. REWRITE!!; Conform to the following; YEAR - EXPEDITION_LEADER / AUTHOR, TITLE, DATE_OF_PUBLICATION, (Yakushi ENTRY), (  edition (only))
  2. ISBN Numbers serve no purpose at all
  3. Expand with all works noted in Yakushi, all books shelved, all the ones mentioned in indexes
  4. Add more and fill in Yakushi numbers
  5. Change Yakushi to Yakushi and create that page?
  6. Use Flagicon like   or what?
  7. Make sure to eliminate disambiguity pages
  8. Should we follow the listings as per Curran?, as per Yakushi?, or add everything we know of that is related to the history of K2?
  9. Should we bundle all 1986 expeditions?
  10. Synch these books with GRID_VIEW.

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