Worlds Apart by Chase, Ilka - 1974

London, UK: The Travel Book Club, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 274pp, central black and white photographic plates. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Bottom edges of boards sun faded. Text block edges starting to fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, chipping to edges. 8vo. From Leningrad and Moscow to Irkutsk and Khavarovsk and then to the ruins of Yucatan, Rio's carnival and the safari in Botswana, the author comments pungently and with delicious irreverence on such diversities as Russian toilets and wild animals in Africa. Her husband, Dr. Norton Brown, augments her adventures with his excellent photographs.