With Dersu the Hunter : Adventures in the Taiga

New York: George Braziller. Good+ in Good dust jacket. (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. 0671793497 . Front free endpaper torn out. Dust-jacket faded and rubbed with some tears. Adhesive tape on reverse of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; viii, [2], 212, [2 (blank)] pages. Pale green cloth boards with green lettering on spine, small illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 209 x 139mm. Small in-text illustrations. 3 maps (1 ful page; 2 double page). Based on a true story. Adventures in the taiga of the Maritime Provence in Far East Siberia. Text in English, adapted by Anne Terry White. "The taiga held no secrets for Dersu. The flight of birds and the ways of wild animals, the mysterious sounds and smells of the trackless woods, how to survive in a blinding blizzard or a sudden flood - all this was an open book to him. [. . .] The great Russian naturalist, Arsenyev, was lucky to find Dersu when he went to explore a far corner of the taiga; without him the expedition would have failed. [. . .] On more than one occasion Dersu saved his life when he encountered the terrible tiger, the blood-thirsty panther and the brown bear, or when he almost froze to death in a raging blizzard, or might have drowned in a flash flood." - from dust-jacket blurb. Series: A Venture Book. .