AN AMAZON AND A DONKEY.
by SCOTT-STOKES, NATASCHA:
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- ISBN 10
- 0712634525
- ISBN 13
- 9780712634526
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated wrap-around colour scenic photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges or corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edge lightly aged/toned - as usual/ normal,fore-edge brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight and clean.Bright,clean,unblemished pale grey cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped green gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xpp+1- 249pp [paginated] +8pp blanks to rear,includes half-title+title pages, contents list/table,Pts 1-4 comprising 27 chapters/sections,8pp b/w photographs between pp114/15,acknowledgements,full-page b/w map South America,appendices(4) and a bibliography. 'Don't go,' warned the miltary attache in Lima when he heard the diminutive young traveller's intention to follow the Amazon from its headwaters in the Andes all the way to the sea.Even in peaceful times it was an extraordinary plan: no woman had ever made such a trip alone. And now,in 1989,there was the added danger of Andean terrorist guerillas,the Senderos,who had recently targeted gringos in order to sabotage Peru's tourist industry.But Natascha had dreamt of this journey for as long as she could remember and she certainly didn't seem to understand the word don't.What a wry,sparkling,well-informed chronicler of the terrain and its peoples Natascha turned out to be: no wonder so many Andeans opened their doors to her.Despite set-backs,unthinkable risks,periodic fury - with the donkey and with herself - she walked for three months,following the Maranon river - discovering first hand the jokes,the fears,the hardships and the pleasures of remote Peruvian lives. Once in the Amazon lowlands she continued for two more months by a curious variety of rivercraft,staying with missionaries,local settlers and finally with a community of Bora Indians - discovering that tenuous no-man's land which lies between traditional cultures and the encroaching twentieth century.The book is at once a disarmingly candid personal record,yet interlaced are the hard facts of this desperate period of hyper-inflation and social chaos in Peru's history.Natascha draws the characters she encountered with skill and flair yet she never loses sight of the fact that while she is pursuing an adventurous dream,these people are fighting for their very survival. 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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- Title
- AN AMAZON AND A DONKEY.
- Author
- SCOTT-STOKES, NATASCHA:
- Illustrator
- illus with b/w photographs.
- Format/Binding
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0712634525
- ISBN 13
- 9780712634526
- Publisher
- LONDON.CENTURY,1991.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1991
- Keywords
- q52.GENERAL.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0712634525.Peru_Amazon River Basin_description_travel.Travel_travel writing_Peru_Amazon.Lima.Andes_guerillas_Senderos.Rio Maranon.Bora Indians.Brillo Nuevo.Maloca.Huaraz.Yerupaja Mountain Range.Huayhuash
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