Brazilian Adventure
de Fleming, Peter
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good-/Very Good-
- Librería
-
Madison, New Jersey, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. 408pp. Beige cloth, green decoration, black lettering. map endpapers. twenty five illustrations, two maps. Even mottling to the covers .Attractive bookplate on the front free endpaper. Three pages have faint ink erasure, otherwise a clean, unmarked text. "A" on the copyright page indicating a true first Edition. Unclipped pictorial jacket has minor chipping on the spine edges, soiling on the foldovers. in mylar sleeve. "In the summer of 1925 Colonel Fawcett - soldier, spy and legendary explorer - embarked on a journey into the dark and uncharted heart of Brazil in search of the lost 'City of Z'. He was never seen again. Laid in is a Book-of-the-Month Club booklet. "The Times" advertised for 'guns' to join an expedition to find Fawcett, the lure was too great for a young Peter Fleming and he immediately signed up, intending to send dazzling dispatches from the jungle. What followed was, in Fleming's words, 'a venture for which Rider Haggard might have written the plot and Conrad designed the scenery'. As the expedition forged its way deeper into the Amazon, disagreements fractured the group and the entire adventure ended in a chaotic race to be the first to report back home." . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good-. Thick Octavo.
Sinopsis
Brazilian Adventure is a book by Peter Fleming about his search for the lost Colonel Percy Fawcett in the Brazilian jungle. Fawcett along with his son and another companion had disappeared while searching for the Lost City of Z in 1925. Fleming was working as literary editor for The Times when he answered a small ad asking for volunteers to join an expedition to find out what had happened to Fawcett. The story of Fleming's 1932 expedition is told in Brazilian Adventure.
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Detalles
- Librería
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 034280
- Título
- Brazilian Adventure
- Autor
- Fleming, Peter
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good-
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good-
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1934
- Tamaño
- Thick Octavo
- Palabras clave
- Brazil Colonel Fawcett The Amazon Illustrated True Adventure
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Sobre The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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