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Livres anciens et modernes

Hort, Mrs Alfred

Via Nicaragua; a Sketch of Travel

1987

64,86 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Détails

Année
1987
Lieu d'édition
Conway, NH. La Tienda el Quetzal
Auteur
Hort, Mrs Alfred
Edition
reprint of the London first edition of 1887, first US edition.
Thème
Travel - Central America & West Indies Women Travellers
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

8vo [21 x 13 cm]; [vi], 267 pp. original brown cloth with gilt spine title lettering, fine and clean, unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Robinson 283: 'Dora Hort was forceful, outspoken and blessed with a sublime sense of self-importance. An American whose travel book for some reason were published only in London', until this recent reprint, making it the first American edition, if a trifle late. She travelled from New York to San Francisco, via Nicaragua, with much of the description of her experiences and especially with her struggle to complete the trip, its hardships, including the journey mainly by horseback through Nicaragua.
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