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The Strong Brown God: The Story of the Niger River
de Gramont, Sanche de
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395197821
- ISBN 13
- 9780395197820
- Librería
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. 350 (2) pp, illus. with 7 maps and 16 unpaginated b&w plates on glossy paper, Author's Preface, Ten Chapters, Epilogue, bibliography, index. First Edition, 1976. Price clipped. Penciled name on half-title. Only the slightest external wear, else, Pristine. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.5" x 9.5". Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, and map on end papers. Pictorial dj in acetate protector..
Sinopsis
From the cover: “They crossed impossible deserts. They were assaulted by thieves and left for dead. They went mad. They murdered. They starved. Allies in a hard and lonely mission, they quarrelled and accused each other of homosexuality, living in separate tents and communicating by letter. They ran out of water and drank their own blood to stay alive.The Strong Brown God is the true story of a handful of obsessed explorers who fought man and nature to find and open the mighty, mysterious Niger River as little as one hundred years ago. “A magnificent book”, raved the San Francisco Examiner when Houghton Mifflin first published it in 1976. Pulitzer Prize-winner Sanche de Gramont has written an epic history with a racing pulse - a history that makes the same lasting impression on the reader that it made on the fate of West Africa.”
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Detalles
- Librería
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 7235
- Título
- The Strong Brown God: The Story of the Niger River
- Autor
- Gramont, Sanche de
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395197821
- ISBN 13
- 9780395197820
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston, MA
- Fecha de publicación
- 1976
- Palabras clave
- HISTORY AFRICA NIGER VALLEY AND RIVER DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION
- Catálogos del vendedor
- HISTORY;
- Size
- Large Octavo
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Sobre West Side Book Shop, ABAA
West Side Book Shop, Located in downtown Ann Arbor, was established in 1975 by Jay Platt, a member of the ABAA. West Side Book Shop offers a wide selection of used and rare books.
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
