BEHIND GOD'S BACK.
by Farson, Negley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair condition only (from a circulating library) with one tape repair to the binding, tape ghosts to the green cloth covers, in /poor
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Harcourt Brace & Company,, (1941). Hardcover first edition -. Fair condition only (from a circulating library) with one tape repair to the binding, tape ghosts to the green cloth covers, in a poor dustjacket with extensive tape reinforcements to the interior, edgewear and more. . First US printing. A coast-to-coast trip across Africa from Dar-es-Salaam in Tanganyika to Duala in the French Cameroons - an account of both the rigors of the trip, but also a picture of an emerging modern Africa - and of a region which the author realized would be important during World War II. Rather uncommon US edition of a book which had already (as noted on the dj) gone thru 9 printings in England. The author was an American but also an Anglophile. 555 pp. Map endpapers.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87335
- Title
- BEHIND GOD'S BACK.
- Author
- Farson, Negley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair condition only (from a circulating library) with one tape repair to the binding, tape ghosts to the green cloth covers, in
- Jacket Condition
- poor
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1941)
- Keywords
- africa, tanganyika, automobile trip, cameroons, colonialism, british empire,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Exploration;
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