Garden Islands of the great East : Collecting Seeds from the Philippines and Netherlands India in the Junk "Chêng Ho".[We Journey into a World at War; Glimpses of Vanishing Japan; Zamboanga & Mindanao; Down the Coast of Celebes; Java; Bali; Batavia;
by Fairchild, David Grandison, 1869-1954. [map, Erwin Raisz, Thomas Barbour; photos, Edward "Ned" Beckwith]
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New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943., 1943. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. xiv pp., 1 leaf, 239 pp. ; frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 24 cm. ; LCCN: 43-15231 ; OCLC: 559007 ; LC: SB109 ; Dewey: 581.5 ; blue cloth with silver lettering ; slight knock, slight wear ; numerous photographs in black & white of rare tropical plants ; a scientific expedition in 1939 and 1940 which took author Fairchild on an air-conditioned Chinese junk, Cheng Ho, to Celebes, Bali, the Moluccas Islands ; VG.
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- Garden Islands of the great East : Collecting Seeds from the Philippines and Netherlands India in the Junk "Chêng Ho".[We Journey into a World at War; Glimpses of Vanishing Japan; Zamboanga & Mindanao; Down the Coast of Celebes; Java; Bali; Batavia;
- Author
- Fairchild, David Grandison, 1869-1954. [map, Erwin Raisz, Thomas Barbour; photos, Edward "Ned" Beckwith]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943.
- Date Published
- 1943
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- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- philippines seeds botany japan zamboanga mindanao java celebes batavia bali indonesia amboina moluccas manipa boeroe spice islands catamarans plants eucalyptus bahay kubo mayon japanese world war ii wwii luzon fruits marang aroid palms durians Ah Fook Am
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- Catalog 74 - Gardening;
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