The Great Explorers Tapa dura - 1979

Books for Pleasure, Sydney, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. Introduction by author, index and picture credits. Illustrated end pages showing a meeting of indigenous people and explores. The text is illustrated with numerous colour and black-and-white photographs, maps in colour and black-and-white illustrations. Pale Olive coloured boards with black coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic / illustrated dustwrapper with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Over 50 short biographies of explorers of the oceans, the land, rivers, the polar regions, broken into time periods from ancient to artic exploration. Rubbing of the book corners with faint sunning to the top book edge. Age toning of the text block edges. Creasing of the top dustwrapper edge with rubbing of the panels. Sunning of the back strip and lighter sunning of the panels. A little chipping of the top back strip edge. Size: 4to… Leer más