Brazilian Adventure
by Peter Fleming
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Creston, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
"Brazilian Adventure" by Peter Fleming. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons - with new 1960 Foreword by the author. "For this edition, Peter Fleming has added a new Introduction which brings the book up to date in terms of the fate of Colonel Fawcett's party." Map of the Route of the Expedition Through Brazil, Glossary. 412pp. The book was first published in 1934. "An inside story of an expedition organized to uncover the fate of a vanished explorer." In Good condition with rubbing on the lower extremities and top of the spine with a Very Good dust jacket with a chip at the head of the spine. Scarce copy.
Synopsis
Brazilian Adventure is a book by Peter Fleming about his search for the lost Colonel Percy Fawcett in the Brazilian jungle. Fawcett along with his son and another companion had disappeared while searching for the Lost City of Z in 1925. Fleming was working as literary editor for The Times when he answered a small ad asking for volunteers to join an expedition to find out what had happened to Fawcett. The story of Fleming's 1932 expedition is told in Brazilian Adventure.
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- Bookseller
- Charlie's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16265
- Title
- Brazilian Adventure
- Author
- Peter Fleming
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Pages
- 412
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Missing Explorer
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; South America;
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