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Livres anciens et modernes

Cutting, Suydam

The Fire Ox and Other Years

1947

74,26 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1947
Lieu d'édition
New York. Charles Scribner's Sons
Auteur
Cutting, Suydam
Thème
Travel - Asia Naturalists Travels Asia
Langues
Anglais

Description

8vo [24.5 x 18 cm]; xviii, [i], 393 pp, color frontis, from painting by Alexandre Iacovleff, color plates, 3 color maps, many other excellent illus, general index, index of mammals and birds, index of plants. original cloth, gilt lettering on front and spine, very light shelf wear but a near fine, solid and clean copy in a good dj (price clipped, wear). A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A superb account of the author's travels to the less accessible places of the earth over a 15 year period, among the Assamese headhunters, the tribes of Turkestan, the Lamas of Tibet, the Andamaese Pygmies and through Nepal, Chinese Turkestan (with the Roosevelt expedition of 1925), Galapagos, Burma, Nepal, Ethiopia, etc, with indexes of plants, birds and mammals encountered. The Fire Ox is from Tibetan chronology. An excellent and well-illustrated production. Frank Kingdon Ward was a member of the 1939 expedition to Burma.