My Life As An Explorer
by Hedin, Sven
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
New York: Garden City Publishing Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. (1925). Hardcover. Owner's signature. Chips to dust wrapper. Heavy wear to front joint area of dust wrapper. Front fold of dust wrapper almost detached. ; 544 pages. Buff cloth boards. llustrated. Page Dimensions: 241mm x 162mm. "With thirty-four volumes of the accounts of his exploration and discoveries to draw from, Dr. Hedin in this great autobiography has compressed between two covers the most thrilling experiences of a lifetime of adventure." - from the dust wrapper blurb. Selected contents: Across The Elburz Range To Teheran; On Horseback Through Persia; Through Mesopotamia To Bagdad; Constantinople; An Ambassador To The Shah Of Persia; Through Khorasan, The Land Of The Sun; Meshhed, The City Of Martyrs; Bokhara And Samarkand; With The Emir Of Bokhara; With The Kirghiz; My Struggle With The 'Father Of The Ice Mountains'; The Caravan Meets With Disaster; Robinson Crusoe; Second Expedition To The Pamirs; I Discover 2000-Year-Old Cities In The Desert; My First Entry Into Tibet; In The Land Of Tangut Robbers; On To Peking; Our Life On The Largest River In The Very heart Of Asia."; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10133
- Title
- My Life As An Explorer
- Author
- Hedin, Sven
- Illustrator
- Hedin, Sven
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Garden City Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1925)
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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