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Von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang

Jungle in the Clouds; a Naturalist's Explorations in the Republic of Honduras

1946

45.12 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Year of publication
1946
Place of printing
New York. Duell, Sloan and Pearce
Author
Von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang
Edition
second printing, the first edition did not have the colored
Keyword
Travel - Central America & West Indies Archeology
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

8vo [21.5 x 14.5 cm]; x, 268 pp, colored frontis, numerous illustrations from photos, endpaper maps, bibliog, index. original cloth, gilt title lettering on spine, signature on endpaper, cover lightly spotted, very good interior clean, solid copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. This well known author of Latin American travel books travelled extensively through Honduras by rail, plane, mule, burro, boat and by foot, and described nature and the archeology. He studied the rare quetzal, the sacred bird of the Maya, as well as the Toltecs and Aztecs, and the ancient Mayan city of Copan. One of the illustrations is the first photograph ever taken of the Quetzal. This printing has the advantage of a new frontis of the quetzal that is in color (the first colored photo of a quetzal published) and a bibliography and appendix on the literary history of the quetzal that is not in the first edition.