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The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of one Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Oriental, in South America, as told by Himself
by W. H. Hudson
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J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, London, 1951. First Thus. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Hudson was born in Argentina & spent over thirty years there before moving to England in 1874 so, although this was written as a novel, the background is as authentic as an early travelogue & the appendix gives a brief history of the Banda Oriental. B/w. frontis. portrait of the author aged about twenty-five. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 366 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's gift inscription in ink to front end-paper. Gilt titles spine. light fading to bottom of spine. red cloth. Includes appendix. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Novel; South America; Uruguay; Travel & Places. Inventory No: 3754. .
Synopsis
This work was first issued in 1885, by Messrs. Sampson Low, in two slim volumes, with the longer, and to most persons, enigmatical title of The Purple Land That England Lost. A purple land may be found in almost any region of the globe, and 'tis of our gains, not our losses, we keep count. A few notices of the book appeared in the papers, one or two of the more serious literary journals reviewing it (not favourably) under the heading of Travels and Geography; but the reading public cared not to buy, and it very shortly fell into oblivion.
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- Title
- The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of one Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Oriental, in South America, as told by Himself
- Author
- W. H. Hudson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Travel/South America/Banda Oriental/Uruguay/Novel/Montevideo/Guillermo Enrique Hudson Fiction; Novel; South America; Uruguay; Travel & Places. Unbranded W. H. Hudson The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of one Richard Lamb's Adventures i
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