The Spice Islands Voyage: In Search of Wallace
by Severin, Tim
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0316881759
- ISBN 13
- 9780316881753
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(London: Little, Brown and Company, 1997) 0316881759. 8vo; original yellow boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. (xii) + 267; map; colour plates; illustrations in text. Very good condition. "The Spice Islands Voyage is a singular travel book, a unique blend of biography, ecology, history and adventure. It bears witness to the many heroic achievements of one of the great Victorian scientist-explorers." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12251
- Title
- The Spice Islands Voyage: In Search of Wallace
- Author
- Severin, Tim
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316881759
- ISBN 13
- 9780316881753
- Publisher
- (London: Little, Brown and Company, 1997) 0316881759
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Indonesia. New Guinea. Evolution Travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
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About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...