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First Time Around The World.
by Doug Lansky
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+/ND/No Dust Jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 1843530570
- ISBN 13
- 9781843530572
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK "ROUGH GUIDE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Stated.* Date of Publication: 2003* Publisher: The Penguin Group.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated stiff card covers showing A hiker in boots leaping a void. Blue & white titles to spine & face. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners, slight split to tail of spine. No visible marks. VG+.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning, edges slightly grubby, no other visible faults. Seems lightly used. VG+.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos and coloured maps and diagrams throughout.* Pages: 292 pp. text. xl pp. Appendices, acknowledgements, advertisements & index at rear.* Description:- First Time Around the World is a pre-trip guide for travellers planning their first trip around the world. It's an engaging and lively book by an experienced world traveller which covers everything from budgeting, packing and avoiding scams to staying healthy and working abroad. The guide contains area profiles, giving the lowdown on where to go and the best way of getting around. Colour photos provide evocative images of some of the most alluring destinations and there are anecdotes throughout from other travellers..* This is a NEAR VG++ copy of the 1st thus, with minor age and wear reducing it to VG+.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10306
- Title
- First Time Around The World.
- Author
- Doug Lansky
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+/ND
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1843530570
- ISBN 13
- 9781843530572
- Publisher
- The Penguin Broup
- Place of Publication
- London UK.
- Date Published
- 2003
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Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Shelf Wear
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- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Edges
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