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Bishop, Nathaniel H.

Four Months in a Sneak-Box; A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Along the Gulf of Mexico

1879

134,42 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1879
Lieu d'édition
Boston. Lee and Shepard
Auteur
Bishop, Nathaniel H.
Edition
First edition.
Thème
Travel - North America canoe
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

8vo [21 x 14.5 cm]; xii, 322, [ii, ads] pp, frontis, many illustrations including full-page, 5 maps. original pictorial cloth with gilt picture of author in small boat, gilt lettering on spine, spine label removed, internal hinges cracked but firm, bookplate on endpaper, light marginal stain on few leaves, else interior quite good and clean. A picture of 'Excellent account of people, social conditions, economics and political life but is of special significance on natural history' (Bruns - Angling Books of the Americas 164). Not in Sabin or Howes. His sneak-box was a small duck hunters' boat that looked like a row-boat. The author had also written 'Voyage of the Paper Canoe.' A classic American travel.