Departures.
de Grant Watson, E. L. (Elliot); O'Connor, John (illustrator)
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London: Pleiades Books Limited, 1948. 1st ed.. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), black & white illustrations, minor foxing edges, reverse side jacket lightly foxed (small tear spine, minor edgewear, few creases, foxed spots white background rear cover), light foxing endpapers & title page, pages lightly toned, dustjacket protected by removable semi archival plastic sleeve lined with white paper. 131 pp. Autobiographical reflections by British naturalist and adventurer Elliot Grant Watson. The author looks at nature and sees what is fleeting and what is most permanent. He travels to distant lands, then returns to Europe. Includes a series of short poetic descriptions of life and countryside in Western Australia, including a corroboree, the fauna of Bernier and Dorre Islands (Pilbara), and caves near Busselton.
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- Bookhome Sydney
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- Título
- Departures.
- Autor
- Grant Watson, E. L. (Elliot); O'Connor, John (illustrator)
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Edición
- 1st ed.
- Encuadernación
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- Editorial
- Pleiades Books Limited
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1948
- Palabras clave
- biography, autobiography, travel, nature, animals, poetry, britain, collectible, collectable
- Catálogos del vendedor
- NATURE & ANIMALS;
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
Sobre Bookhome Sydney
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- Edges
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- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Quarto
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