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THE SURVIVAL OF THE BARK CANOE
de John McPhee
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near fine/good +
- Librería
-
Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. First printing. Hardcover. Near fine/good +. 6 x 9 in. Brown cloth boards. Stated first printing. Condition is NEAR FINE ; covers extremely clean with no shelf wear. Binding tight, text spotless. DJ is GOOD+ ; clipped, very clean but partly tonedat rear, spine mildly toned. Minor wear to edges. Hist. RGR.
Sinopsis
In the small town of New Hampshire, Greenville, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is a telling of this ancient craft and a 150 mile trip through the Maine woods in these examples of prehistoric technology. The book is written in the traditions of the first tourist in these woods, Henry David Thoreau, whose text The Maine Woods recounts a familiar journey in a similar vessel. McPhee describes the expedition with Vaillancourt, the evolution of the bark canoe from beginning through the development of the large canoes used by fur traders of the Canadian North Woods. He notes the differing types of bark canoes, whose construction varied from tribe to tribe, according to custom and available materials. Effortless as the waters of Maine, John Mcphee has written a fascinating book, one in which his mind as a journalist is on brilliant display.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Andre Strong Bookseller
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 50504
- Título
- THE SURVIVAL OF THE BARK CANOE
- Autor
- John McPhee
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- good +
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First printing
- Editorial
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1975
- Catálogos del vendedor
- History;
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
