Transit of Venus by Evans, Julian - 1992

Hardback. Very Good.

Penguin Random House. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. A clean first edition, not an ex-lib, no markings throughout: The "noble savages" of the islands of the South Pacific now have money and alcohol, military bases, atomic explosions and a good deal of Christianity. The British on Fiji, the French on New Caledonia and the Americans on the Marshalls have all remade these island paradises in their own images, according to Evans. In Suva, the Fiji capital, the author, a British journalist, walks down Victoria Parade past Albert Park, in a city that "reeks of the London suburbs." ("What do you think we're developing the South Pacific for? So everyone can go shopping," a friend tells him.) In New Caledonia, the French are so insistently French that for a long time their navy was the only one in the world to use navigational charts based on the Paris meridian rather than the international standard, the Greenwich meridian. The Americans on the Marshalls Islands have… Read More

London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. original cloth hardcover,277 pages,signed by the Author with French inscription to a named recipient on title page,fine in fine unclipped dustwrapper.

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 273pp, inc sources, 8vo, cloth, minimal to none shelf wear, mapped end-papers, dust jacket price clipped, in protective cover, a very nice copy. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Quantity Available: 1. ISBN: 0436199858. ISBN/EAN: 9780436199851. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1709. . 9780436199851