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RONDA GORGE & OTHER PRECIPICES: Travel Writing 1956-89

RONDA GORGE & OTHER PRECIPICES: Travel Writing 1956-89

RONDA GORGE & OTHER PRECIPICES: Travel Writing 1956-89

RONDA GORGE & OTHER PRECIPICES: Travel Writing 1956-89

by Higgins, Aidan

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ISBN 13
9780436195976
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London, United Kingdom: Secker & Warburg, 1989 230pp. FIRST UK EDITION of Higgins' collection of travel essays. Original dustjacket not price clipped; with slight shelf wear around the top edges of the jacket. Book pages have very slight tanning around edges (Secker used inferior paper which has not faired well with age). Text pages clean with no internal markings. Ronda Gorge is a collection of Higgins' travel writing over 23 years which are based on his travel diaries and assorted memoirs piecing together the very best. Aidan Higgins is considered one of modern Ireland's greatest writers. His first experimental novel "Langrishe, Go Down" was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1966. Ronda Gorge is now out of print.

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Originally published: London : Allison & Busby, 1987. William T. O'Malley ; gift ; 2005 Dec. Gift of William T. O'Malley.

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Title
RONDA GORGE & OTHER PRECIPICES: Travel Writing 1956-89
Author
Higgins, Aidan
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Good
Quantity Available
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Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0436195976
ISBN 13
9780436195976
Publisher
Secker & Warburg
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
Date Published
1989
Keywords
Travel Writing
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First Editions; Travel Writing;

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