Handles Of Chance A Journey from the Solomon Islands to Istanbul
by Wollaston, Nicholas
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
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Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Light shelf wear and tear to price clipped DJ with some light foxing. Some foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Petrol blue cloth boards with white lettering to spine and motif to front board. Nice tight copy, no names inside. ; Photographs; 256 pages; An account of an incredible journey, or more accurately a wandering, from the Pacific to the Golden Horn. Having sailed to the Solomon Islands from England in an 80ft ketch the author caught a cargo boat to Australia, hitch-hiked from Sydney to Adelaide working on a sheep station on the way, thence to the Himalayas for a spot of climbing and then overland to Turkey. .
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- Title
- Handles Of Chance A Journey from the Solomon Islands to Istanbul
- Author
- Wollaston, Nicholas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
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