User:Qwrk/Sandbox/K2 books reworked

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


Books on K2 (Expeditions listed as per Curran)[edit]

1856 - United Kingdom British - Montgomerie


1861 - United Kingdom British - Godwin-Austen


1887 - United Kingdom British - Younghusband


1889 - Poland Polish - Grombczewski


1890 - Italy Italian - Lerco


1892 - United Kingdom British - Conway


1902 - International - Eckenstein and Crowley


1909 - Italy Italian - Luigi Amedeo


1929 - Italy Italian - Aimone di Savoia-Aosta


1937 - United Kingdom British - Shipton


1938 - United States American - Houston


1939 - United States 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), (United States edition)
  • Andrew Kauffman and William Putnam, K2; The 1939 Tragedy, 1992, (Yakushi K66), (United Kingdom edition)
  • Fritz Wiessner, K2, Tragödien und Sieg am Zweithöchsten Berg der Erde, 1955, (Yakushi W152), (Germany edition only)


1953 - United States American - Houston


1953 - Italy Italian - Cassin


1954 - Italy Italian - Desio


1960 - Germany German / United States American - Hackett



  1. REWRITE!!; Conform to the following; YEAR - EXPEDITION_LEADER / AUTHOR, TITLE, DATE_OF_PUBLICATION, (Yakushi ENTRY), (Australia 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 Italy 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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