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Serpent in Paradise: Among the People of the Bounty
by Dea Birkett
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 038548870X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385488709
- Seller
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
1st printing of 1st edition. New hardcover in New DJ. Bright, crisp, clean covers, spine and interior; tightly bound and square in case. 8vo, 296 pp. This is a new, unread book.
Synopsis
Author Dea Birkett is inspired to go to Pitcairn Island and contrives a reason and wrangles a grant from the Royal Mail to fulfill her dream of paradise. What she finds is a tiny community of hardy folk who make their island even smaller by their constant presence in each others' lives.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Madden Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A06011
- Title
- Serpent in Paradise: Among the People of the Bounty
- Author
- Dea Birkett
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 038548870X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385488709
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- ANTHROPOLOGY; BIRKETT, DEA, 1958-; CULTURAL; DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL; ESSAYS & TRAVELOGUES; FICTION; HISTORY; JOURNEYS; OCEANIA; PITCAIRN ISLAND; SOCIAL SCIENCE; TRAVEL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Geography, History, Travel;
Terms of Sale
Madden Books
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About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
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