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Drake's Island of Thieves: Ethnological Sleuthing
by William Armand Lessa (1908-1997)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0824803337
- ISBN 13
- 9780824803339
- Seller
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About This Item
xviii+289 pages with pictorial title, maps, tables, charts, figures, plates, facsimiles, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial jacket. First edition. During his historic circumnavigation of the globe almost four centuries ago, Francis Drake set sail across the Pacific in the Golden Hind from the coast of California coast and did not make landfall for several weeks later. His reception was such that he called the place the "Island of thieves." Ever since, the identity of the island has bee the subject of much speculation. William Lessa seeks to set the record straight, with the perspicacity of the scholarly investigator, he sifts through the information from the fields of ethnohistory, ethnology and anthropology. Condition: Corners bumped, corners lightly rubbed. Jacket spine lightly sunned else very good in a very good to fine dust jacket
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS003734
- Title
- Drake's Island of Thieves: Ethnological Sleuthing
- Author
- William Armand Lessa (1908-1997)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0824803337
- ISBN 13
- 9780824803339
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Place of Publication
- Honolulu
- Date Published
- 1975
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
- Size
- Royal octavo
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