White Waters and Black (The Natural History Library N5)
de MacCreagh, Gordon, and Oliver, Dr. James A. (Foreword by)
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Top and right page block minor foxing.
- Librería
-
Newport, New Hampshire, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Garden City NY.: Doubleday Anchor by arr. w/ Appleton-Century-Crofts., 1961. First edition. 1st Anchor edition.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Top and right page block minor foxing.. Palacios, Rafael (Map drawn by).. 1 335 p. Includes: illustrations, maps. Mass-market (rack) Paperback, slightly wider and taller. 2 B&W photo sections. Map frontispiece. Published with The American Museum of Natural History, this recounts the expedition launched by 8 greenhorn scientists setting off at the headwaters of the Amazon River, over 2 years, down the Rio Blanco and up the Rio Negro. They were 6 eminent professors including a self-appointed Director, an Entomologist, a Botanist, an Ichthyologist, and a Statistician intent on gathering biological specimens of this newly explored territory. It stands as an account of how NOT to conduct an expedition. Bickering dwindled the party to 2 survivors, one being the author MacCreagh, b.1886, Indiana-d.1953, St. Petersburg, Florida.
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- Librería
- Hedgehog's Whimsey Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- Alibris.B2280004237
- Título
- White Waters and Black (The Natural History Library N5)
- Autor
- MacCreagh, Gordon, and Oliver, Dr. James A. (Foreword by)
- Ilustrador
- Palacios, Rafael (Map drawn by).
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Mass-market paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Top and right page block minor foxing.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition. 1st Anchor edition.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Editorial
- Doubleday Anchor by arr. w/ Appleton-Century-Crofts.
- Lugar de publicación
- Garden City NY.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1961
- Palabras clave
- Rio Blanco and Rio Negro|Brazil|Venezuela|Bolivia|Late 19th century|Expedition South America|Entomologist|Botanist|Ichthyologist|Statistician
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Physical Sciences & Natural History;
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