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Livres anciens et modernes

Roberts, Kenneth G. And Philip Shackleton

The Canoe; A History of the Craft from Panama to the Arctic

1983

57,34 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1983
Lieu d'édition
Toronto. Macmillan of Canada
Auteur
Roberts, Kenneth G. And Philip Shackleton
Edition
First Edition.
Thème
Travel - North America Native Peoples Signed
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

oblong 4to [26 x 31 cm]; viii, 279 pp, numerous illustrations and plates in color and bw, bibliog, index, map endpapers showing aboriginal peoples in North and Central America. original simulated leather cloth, gilt vignette and lettering, dj, a fine copy in fine dj, signed in ink by both authors on the half-title page. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. An important study including rafts and floats, the dugout, the skin boat, the bark canoe, the modern canoe and all their variations over time and from different aboriginal peoples. Many of the illustrations are from early sources including the making and use of the canoe. A major, if not the best modern work on the subject.
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