Hillaby's World: Adventures Across the Three Continents
by Hillaby, John
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 1856191664
- ISBN 13
- 9781856191661
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About This Item
New. New Ships From Canada Sligh shelf wear on dust jacket, otherwise new Sewn binding Cloth over boards 238 pages From Publishers Weekly: Hillaby is perhaps best known for his walk from Land's End to John O'Groats, a trek chronicled in Journey Through Britain A portion of that book appears here along with excerpts from his other travel adventures His account of visits to the Congo and to the Mountains of the Moon, made during the colonial period, seem dated "'"Journey to the Jade Sea"'" recounts Hillaby's camel trek along the Ethiopia-Kenya border to Lake Rudolph (1963) On a trip to Canada's Northwest Territories he looked at a uranium mine and observed Indians (whom he calls "'"Redmen"'") driving reindeer over cliffs The only non-travel piece offers observations about favorite characters in Hillaby's native Yorkshire The selections are lavishly illustrated with color photographs; the passages chosen from Journey Through Britain are enduring and classic Copyright 1993 Reed Business
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- Bookseller
- Pine Tree Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8677714573
- Title
- Hillaby's World: Adventures Across the Three Continents
- Author
- Hillaby, John
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1856191664
- ISBN 13
- 9781856191661
- Publisher
- Trafalgar Square Publishing
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- May 1993
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