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AMAZON.

by BERWICK, DENNISON:

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ISBN 10
0224028995
ISBN 13
9780224028998
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated scenic colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Minimal bumping to both head+foot of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creasing in situ.Top edge lightly dust-soiled and minimally spotted,fore-edge brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight and pristine.Clean,unblemished,publisher's original, black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate green eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xi-xiiipp+ 1-241pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,contents+maps lists/ tables,acknowledgements,author intro,15 chapters,8pp colour photographs between pp114/15,glossary,a reading list and an equipment list. 'This' writes Dennison Berwick in his introduction,'is the story of a quest.It begins in an insignificant place on a tributary one thousand miles up the River Amazon,and ends with an embrace of a Yanomami chief in a rackety,stinking city of a million people.Between the fears with which my journey started and the new saddened understanding of my return to civilisation lies an experience of wilderness that was for me both exhilarating and unsettling.I went there because I wanted to examine people's relationship with and thoughts about the natural world,and I chose the Amazon because,in spite of many recent changes,it still remains the greatest single expression of untamed nature on this planet.' Over a nine-month journey by foot and canoe Berwick travelled over 4,000 miles down the Amazon.Others have covered parts of the river before,but few Westerners its entire length and none has recorded his adventures with so much personal conviction,so colourfully or with such humour.Adopted by one tribal chieftain,his life threatened by another, Yorkshire- born Berwick lived literally a charmed life,and his account is a glorious example of travel writing at its best. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!


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R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
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Title
AMAZON.
Author
BERWICK, DENNISON:
Illustrator
illus with colour photographs.
Format/Binding
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
Jacket Condition
NFINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0224028995
ISBN 13
9780224028998
Publisher
LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1990.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
1992-07-27
Keywords
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