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Korea - A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
by Winchester, Simon
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0246133635
- ISBN 13
- 9780246133632
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Grafton Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. 0246133635 . No signatures. A couple of small 4mm stains to top page edges. Dust-jacket is price-clipped.; xvi, (xvii-xviii), 238 pages + 12 illustrations on 4 plate leaves. Blue boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 230 x 152mm. Travel account of the author's visit to Korea. "Setting out from the honeymoon island of Cheju off the southern tip of the peninsula, he walked over 300 miles northwards to the capital city Seoul and the Demilitarized Zone on the North Korean border. [. . .] His progress took him to tiny fishing villages and immense industrial cities, across high mountain ranges and lowland rice fields, to Buddhist monasteries set in starkly beautiful landscapes, and to high-tension American bomber bases. [. . .] He also had a Seoul haircut, which poved quite unlike any other barbershop experience." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23137
- Title
- Korea - A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
- Author
- Winchester, Simon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0246133635
- ISBN 13
- 9780246133632
- Publisher
- Grafton Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1988)
- Keywords
- 0246133635
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We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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