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Wild People: Travels With Borneo's Head-Hunters
by Andro Linklater
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0871134519
- ISBN 13
- 9780871134516
- Seller
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About This Item
Wild People, travels with Borneo's Headhunters , A fascinating account of the Iban native people of Sarawak, Wild People, tries to grasp the inner world of the Iban, where the subconscious is replaced by the supernatural, understanding the demands of the gods & spirits becomes as important as introspection to the Western mind..... Hardcover book in very good condition. Cream colored boards with pumpkin color wrapped spine, metallic blue lettering are in very good condition with no noticeable wear. Pages are clean, unmarked. Dust jacket is in just good condition- some ruffling, minor use marks mostly on the back. ....Very nice copy condition wise,... plus it is a stated first printing....... Wild People: Travels with Borneo's Head Hunters, Andro Linklater, Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr; 1st printing, Atlantic Monthly Press,NY, ed. (May 1, 1991), originally published Great Britain 1990- John Murray Publishers Limited...LCCN 91-9047, Jacket Design by Joseph Alesi, Jacket photograph by Anthony Howarth, Author photograph by Jeremy Enness, ISBN 0871134519, 9780871134516, Book size about 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.9 in., 208 pages, Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa,Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this will do it! -At least you know what you're getting into- City- Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit------Wild People 4845 HC Red History 21 ..Broad beach Rd producer Malibu .. A Funny and often poignant study of the Iban people of Sarawak. Expecting them to be noble, bare-breasted savages in dugout canoes, the author found a people who, whilst they did decorate their homes with heads not their own, also possessed outboard motors, chainsaws and I love New York T-shirts. Andro Linklate was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on December 10, 1944. He was the youngest child of the novelist Eric Linklater. Attending Belhaven Hill school in Dunbar, East Lothian, and then Winchester College, before studying modern history at New College, Oxford. Taught at a London comprehensive school until he was asked to complete the history of the Black Watch regiment that his father had been writing at the time of his death in 1974. Was published three years later - was well received. Other works include Amazing Maisie and the Cold Porridge Brigade, Wild People, The Code of Love, Measuring America, The Fabric of America, An Artist in Treason, Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die, and Owning the Earth. He died from a heart attack on November 3, 2013 at the age of 68.
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- Bookseller
- Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4845
- Title
- Wild People: Travels With Borneo's Head-Hunters
- Author
- Andro Linklater
- Illustrator
- Jacket Design by Joseph Alesi, Jacket photograph by Anthony Howarth, Author photograph by Jeremy Enness
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0871134519
- ISBN 13
- 9780871134516
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Pr
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Wild People: Travels with Borneo's Head Hunters, Author Andro Linklater, Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr; 1st Atlantic Monthly Press ed edition (May 1, 1991), Jacket Design by Joseph Alesi, Jacket photograph by Anthony Howarth, Author photograph by Jeremy
- Size
- about 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.9 in
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