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Fairchild, David

Garden Islands of the Great East; Collecting Seeds from the Philippines and Netherlands India in the Junk "Cheng Ho"

1943

39,48 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1943
Lugar de impresión
New York. Charles Scribner's Sons
Autor
Fairchild, David
Edición
First edition.
Materia
Travel - Pacific & Australia Plant Hunting
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

large 8vo [24.5 x 16 cm], xiv, 239pp, frontis, well illustrated from photos, pictorial eps, index. original cloth, dj (chipped at edges, tears), bookplate removed from blank endpaper, very good, clean throughout. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. By the well-known American plant and seed collector; he had a tropical garden in Florida named after him. This book includes numerous fascinating photos, mainly of plant life but also of the native peoples, throughout the Malaya archipelago and related islands. Fairchild and his party were the last Americans to visit the Celebes and the Moluccas before the Japanese invaded in 1940.
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