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Fountain, Paul, Preface By W. H. Hudson

The Great Deserts and Forests of North America

1901

62,98 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1901
Lugar de impresión
London. Longmans, Green, and Co.
Autor
Fountain, Paul, Preface By W. H. Hudson
Edición
First edition.
Materia
Travel - North America Mammals
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [23 x 15 cm]; ix, 295 pp, with the appendix. original cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and cover, gilt spine decorations, spine lightly faded but lettering clear, cover bit rubbed, interior is clean, unmarked and near fine, overall very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by e The author's first book describes the prairies of the Mississippi Valley, swamps, Yosemite Valley, deserts, Indian life, California and Colorado, wild life, insects, spiders, etc, each in detail. 'It is the freshness of Mr Fountain's observations which makes them so attractive. . . the vanished bison, the puma, grizzly bear and prairie marmot, the moose, the golden eagle, the road runner. . . a procession of noble and beautiful forms and they hold our attention. . . we see them alive and active in their wild haunts through the author's sympathetic eyes'. [W. H. Hudson, famous naturalist and writer].