The Moon Man: A Biography of Miklouho-Maclay Tapa dura - 1985

University of California Press, 1985-02-15. hardcover. Good. 108x24x156. Ex-library book with typical stickers and stampings. RF tag removed from the back of the book which took some paper with it. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.

Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1984. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in dust jacket with some fading to edges, spine. 421 pages, b&w illustrations. ."This story of an outstandingly strange and interesting man is a triumph of modern biography. Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay (1846-1888) was one of the most extraordinary of all the nineteenth-century savant-adventurers. a brilliant student of Ernst Haeckel, he embraced the natural sciences at a time when the genius of Darwin was revolutionizing Western cosmology. In his short lifetime he made the whole world his laboratory: sponges in the Red Sea, and the ancestry of sharks, head measurements in New Guinea; Negrito races in Malay jungles; marine life in Sydney Harbor -- all these and a hundred other topics and places engaged his curiosity. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Record # 381861

Berkeley. Printed in Australia: University of California Press, 1984. Foreword by O H K Spate. xxv, 421pp, b/w plates, 8 maps, notes, bibliography, index. Textured papered boards in price-clipped dust-jacket which is slightly faded at and by its spine. The book covers the Miklouho-Maclay's expeditionry work in far-flung areas of the South Pacific, his deepest attachment being for New Guinea, and is also a study of the psychology of ethnographic research.. First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1984. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0520054350 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light, but noticeable rubbing to the bottom edges of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean, but has noticeable fading / sunning to the spine. "Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (April 1888) was a Russian explorer, ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist who became famous as one of the earliest scientists to settle among and study indigenous people of New Guinea who had never seen a European. Miklouho-Maclay spent the major part of his life travelling and conducted scientific research in the Middle East, Australia, New Guinea, Melanesia and Polynesia. Australia became his adopted country and Sydney the hometown of his family."… Leer más

Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Univ of California Pr, 1985 hardback book in very good condition,dust jacket is near fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Berkely: Univeristy of California Press, 1985. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 421 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Brown cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, some fading to dj spine (see image), very good condition. Binding tight, spine straight. Red endpapers. Pages clean and unmarked. In great shape. Record # 32202

University of California Press, 1984. Hardcover. As new, clean, tight & bright condition, with bright and crisp dust jacket. 421pp.

Hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

University of California Press. Full number line starting with 1. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, spine slightly sunned, one 1mm chip to spine bottom, otherwise Fine. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1985.

University of California Press, 1985-02-15. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!