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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, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1941
Lieu d'édition
New York. Charles Scribner's Sons
Auteur
Shackelford, Shelby
Edition
First edition, first printing with the 'A'.
Thème
Travel - South America Marine & Fresh Water Biology
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

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.