The Country of the Dwarfs
de Paul Du Chaillu
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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EB. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Harper and Brothers, Franklin Square, New York. 1871. Viii, 314 pgs. Illustrated with black and white illustrations. Bound in decorated cloth with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (spine is faded, spine ends lightly bumped and chipped). Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The fifth classic study of African wildlife, culture, and native tribes as they existed in the mid-1800s, written by the first European explorer to confirm the existence of gorillas and African pygmies. Following on from his My Apingi Kingdom, Stories of the Gorilla Country, Wild Life Under the Equator, and Lost in the Jungle, adventurer Paul du Chaillu describes in vivid detail African life before the advent of European colonization, and the astonishing practices, culture, and environment which existed at that time. This work is particularly valuable as it shows, without prejudice or favor, Africa as it was, as seen by one of the first European explorers to set foot inside the interior of the Dark Continent. This last book of his adventures in Equatorial Africa tells of the second of his two great discoveries: that of the Pygmy people of Africa, previously only mentioned in the work of Herodotus and thought to be mythological. It also relates his astonishing endeavors to reach the Nile. Not only did that expedition fail, but his presence generated enmity amongst many tribes, who quite falsely believed that he had brought sickness and death to the natives. Shot through the stomach with a poisoned arrow, Du Chaillu barely escaped this expedition alive, and never returned to Africa after it. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Last Exit Books (US)
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- 66082
- Título
- The Country of the Dwarfs
- Autor
- Paul Du Chaillu
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- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Lugar de publicación
- EB
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- Gilt
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- 12mo
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- Spine
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