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Changes in Latitude: An Uncommon Anthropology
by Varawa, Joana McIntyre
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0871133199
- ISBN 13
- 9780871133199
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About This Item
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press/Grove/Atlantic Inc, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Very clean, unmarked blue-green half cloth with gilt lettering and decorated spine over black boards. Tight, solid and square. Internals in Fine Condition. There is an A stamped on the lower edge, else Fine. Map of the Fiji Islands on endpapers. An unusual story of the author making her life in the Fiji Islands, adapting to the life there. and documenting the way of life in that torrid zone, with an anthropology of the flora, fauna, rituals, passions, and day-to-day life of the Fijian people. 274 pages with glossary. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 1989, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013502
- Title
- Changes in Latitude: An Uncommon Anthropology
- Author
- Varawa, Joana McIntyre
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0871133199
- ISBN 13
- 9780871133199
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press/Grove/Atlantic Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- FIJI ISLAND ANTHROPOLOGY FIJIANS SOUTH PACIFIC
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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