MY JUNGLE BOOK

by DICKEY, HERBERT S

First Edition

Price: CAD $25.00 ($ 24.19)
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Book description: Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1932. pp: xii, 298. Sixteen pages of b&w photographs. Bound in green cloth, titled in black to top board and spine. Dust jacket is soiled; short tears to tips of flap-folds; half-inch tear to top of front joint with cresing; edges chipped. Ffep has been removed. The author lived for twenty-five years in South America, serving as physician and surgeon in mines, on railways, and sugar and rubber plantations. For vacations he spent his time exploring, in the Summer of 1931, after four previous attempts. he discovered the source of the Orinoco River. Dickey describes not only his last success but many of his previous expeditions.....to say nothing of his pungent remarks on Venezuelan politics, American missionaries, and other explorers.Not a collector's item but still an excellent read.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo. Travel, Exploration, Adventure..

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