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Shackelford, Shelby

Electric Eel Calling; A Record of an Artist's Association with a Scientific Expedition to Study the Electric Eel at Santa Maria de Belem do Para, Brazil

1941

53,58 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1941
Lugar de impresión
New York. Charles Scribner's Sons
Autor
Shackelford, Shelby
Edición
First edition, first printing with the 'A'.
Materia
Travel - South America Marine & Fresh Water Biology
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [23.5 x 16 cm]; xi, 258 pp, numerous illustrations from wood blocks of the author. original cloth, spine title lettering, dj (not price clipped, very slightly rubbed at edge), small bookplate of Irving Skeels on endpaper, near fine, clean throughout. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author describes the more human aspects of this scientific expedition, showing Brazilian life and landscape, the peoples, nature, living conditions, etc, with a vivid travel journal and a melding of science and art, in search of the electrophorus electricus eel.
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