IN TROUBLE AGAIN A JOURNEY BETWEEN THE ORINOCO AND THE AMAZON Tapa dura - 1988

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Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 09/26/1988. Hardcover. Used; Very Good. **WE SHIP WITHIN 24 HRS FROM LONDON, UK, 98% OF OUR ORDERS ARE RECEIVED WITHIN 7-10 DAYS. We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

Hamish Hamilton, 1988. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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London England: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1988. Hardback. First Edition. In Trouble Again. Slightly sunned spine to D/J. After spending two months travelling through the primary rain forests of Borneo, the author thought a four-month trip up the Orinoco River and across the Amazon Basin would pose no particular problem. He was wrong. The re-reading of his nineteenth-century heroes, Humboldt and Russel Wallace and Bates, gave comprehensive indications of the natural hazards. Some qwere almost reassuringly familiar from his time in Borneo: amoebic and bacillary dysenteries, fevers of several colours, cholera, rabies, hepatitis. And there were others: the fearsome AIDS-like Chagas' disease; river-blindness, leishmaniasis; and the prowling dangers of jaguars, anacondas, and the tookpick-fish. But the story which emerges of O'Hanlon's journey through the Venezuelan Amazonas is that of an entirely different hazard: the human factor. In his insatiable ornithologist's quest for novelty, and the… Leer más

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