In Southern Light; Trekking Through Zaire and the Amazon
by Alex Shoumatoff
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0552133299
- ISBN 13
- 9780552133296
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London, UK: Corgi, 1988 Corgi, London, UK. 1988. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Corgi printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 232 pp 8vo. As a travel writer, the author is drawn to places beyond the frontiers of Western Civilization. This book describes two such places- the dense, rich jungle of the Amazon and the lush, exotic rain forest of Zaire. Both journeys are fascinating, vivid, and excitingly erotic as he takes the reader into danger, diseases, and the social conditions in primitive societies. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010570
- Title
- In Southern Light; Trekking Through Zaire and the Amazon
- Author
- Alex Shoumatoff
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0552133299
- ISBN 13
- 9780552133296
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Amazon, Zaire, Ituri Forest, BaMbuti, Efe Pygmies, rain forests, primitive societies, Africa, African travel, Nhamunda River.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; African Matters;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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