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Hunza : Adventures in a Land of Paradise
by Tobe, John H
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada: Provoker Press, 1971. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Clean fifth printing (1971) in clean bright original dust jacket. Red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean with clean color map-illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates; very small remainder mark on bottom text block page edges. Illustrated with photographs. 646 pages with Index. Clean jacket is unchipped, has a few very short closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. In the early 1970s, National Geographic ran an extensive series of articles investigating claims of long-lived people around the world. The Hunza Valley is a fertile valley that supports agriculture and provides isolation from the rest of the world, and it's also located at a very high altitude. The Hunza people, who live in the beautiful Hunza Valley in Northern Pakistan, are the healthiest and longest lived race of people so far discovered on earth. The author of this fascinating book set out on an adventurous journey to explore the question of why. .
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033768
- Title
- Hunza : Adventures in a Land of Paradise
- Author
- Tobe, John H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Provoker Press
- Place of Publication
- St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Adventure, travel, Hunza valley, Pakistan, Hunza people, longevity, health, John H. Tobe
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel; Medical/Health;
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- Fine
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