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Greater Nowheres: A Journey Through the Australian Bush
by Finkelstein, Dave and London, Jack
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060158735
- ISBN 13
- 9780060158736
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Row, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book In Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Handsome binding of brown half cloth gilt lettered, burnt-orange boards. Very clean and unmarked; cloth has a faint wrinkle from the upper edge down two inches, which appers to be from publisher's binding.Tight, solid and square. Lower edge of text block edge has a pale stain. Interior is as new. Greater Nowheres takes the reader to an Australia few people have experienced, initially in search of the scourge of Australia's wildest waters, the deadly 'salty', a crocodile that is a man-eating reptile that did prove elusive but the authors found more interest in the Australians themselves in this most forbidding country in the world-where they went anyway. A fascinating look ot the Australian outback.Sketches at the beginning of each chapter. 313 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Harper & Row Publishers, New York, 1998.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013450
- Title
- Greater Nowheres: A Journey Through the Australian Bush
- Author
- Finkelstein, Dave and London, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060158735
- ISBN 13
- 9780060158736
- Publisher
- Harper and Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- AUSTRALIA-DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL; AUSTRALIA, SOCIAL LIFE CUSTOMS; CROCODILES; KIMBERLEY; GULF OF CARPENTARIA; WOLLOGORANG; BROOME; THE OUTBACK; HISTORY, AUSTRALIA; CATTLE RANCHES; GHOST TOWNS; DWARF THROWING;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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