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Brown, Lady Richmond

Unknown Tribes Uncharted Seas

1926

42.30 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Year of publication
1926
Place of printing
London. Duckworth & Co.
Author
Brown, Lady Richmond
Keyword
Travel - Central America & West Indies Scientific Expeditions, Panama
Languages
English

Description

8vo [22 x 15 cm]; xvi, 268 pp, frontis portrait of author, 51 photos on plates, index. original blue cloth, gilt spine title lettering, edges worn, spine a little faded but lettering clear, pictorial bookplate of John Rea, interior is clean in good sound covers. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A narrative of the author's travels with Mitchell Hedges through Panama, describing the Kuna people of the Rio Chucunaque and the area traveled, collecting ethnological and zoological specimens. Good photos of the local people and one of shrunken heads. The author was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Zoological Society, the Linnaean Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. The addendum is a letter from the British Museum thanking her for the thousands of objects she brought back from the expedition and donated to the museum.