Singing Waters
by Bridge,Ann (Mary Dolling Sanders, Lady O'Malley)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1946 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. The setting of "Singing Waters" is in the high mountains of little known Albania. Miss Bridge, who knows her history as well as her geography, sketches in lightly a background of Albanian history and politics. We are shown the characteristics of the sturdy mountaineers, their customs, their habits, their generous hospitality, their blood feuds, their colorful costumes, etc., portrayed with the author's usual skill and warmth. The book is set, in time, in the days before Mussolini had decided to take the blessing of modern civilization to primitive Albania. 242p.decorated end papers .
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Details
- Seller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 039972
- Title
- Singing Waters
- Author
- Bridge,Ann (Mary Dolling Sanders, Lady O'Malley)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- ALBANIA FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Balkans - Fiction; Albania / Albanians;
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KALAMOS BOOKS
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- Book Club Edition
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