Skeleton Coast
by Schoeman, Amy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1868120813
- ISBN 13
- 9781868120819
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Johannesburg: Southern, 1984) 1868120813. Signed by the author on the half-title. 4to; original papered boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 192, incl. index; numerous photographs in colour and monochrome; map; line drawings. Dustwrapper rubbed and somewhat edgeworn, with earlier owner's tape repair to reverse of top edge; small chip to fore-edge of lower board; trace of foxing to top edge, and edges of endpapers; musty smell. Good condition. "The Skeleton Coast Park extends from the Kunene River in the north of Namibia to the Ugab River near Cape Cross in the south. Although it is one of the more recent and lesser-known parks in Africa, it is undoubtedly high on the list of the world's most unusual, captivating and scenically beautiful areas. The reader can share in experiencing its strange beauties through the visual feast presented in this magnificent book." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10831
- Title
- Skeleton Coast
- Author
- Schoeman, Amy
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1868120813
- ISBN 13
- 9781868120819
- Publisher
- (Johannesburg: Southern, 1984) 1868120813
- Place of Publication
- Johannesburg
- This edition first published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Signed copy. Namibia. Survival. Namib Desert. Voyages. Arid regions Namibia
- Bookseller catalogs
- Namibia;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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