In Southern Light: Trekking Through Zaire and the Amazon
de Shoumatoff, Alex
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671494414
- ISBN 13
- 9780671494414
- Librería
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Stanley, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. Fine First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Turquoise paper-covered boards with black cloth spine, silver lettering on spine. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 239 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Explore the mysterious world of the rainforest with author Alex Shoumatoff as he describes his ascent of the Nhamunda River, a little-known tributary of the Amazon that is as long as the Hudson River. The fabled Amazon women (whose legends the author re-examines) are said to have lived here. The second part of the book describes the author's two month journey in Zaire, a place that is an anarchic collection of tribes rather than a country..
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Detalles
- Librería
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 028835
- Título
- In Southern Light: Trekking Through Zaire and the Amazon
- Autor
- Shoumatoff, Alex
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Edición
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0671494414
- ISBN 13
- 9780671494414
- Editorial
- Simon & Schuster
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1986
- Palabras clave
- ADVENTURE, ZAIRE, AMAZON RIVER, ALEX SHOUMATOFF, TRAVEL, TROPICAL RAINFOREST, EXPLORATION
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Adventure/Travel; South America;
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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