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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

129,72 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Dettagli

Anno di pubblicazione
1879
Luogo di stampa
Boston. Lee and Shepard
Autore
Bishop, Nathaniel H.
Edizione
First edition.
Soggetto
Travel - North America canoe
Lingue
Inglese
Prima edizione

Descrizione

8vo [21 x 14.5 cm]; xii, 322, [ii, ads] pp, frontis, illustrations including full-page, 5 maps. original pictorial cloth with gilt picture of author in small boat, gilt lettering on spine, internal hinge cracked but firm, spine ends slightly frayed, colored map of Mississippi from other source (c. 1915) on endpaper, near fine, clean copy. A picture '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.