CACTUS COUNTRY : 1979, 3rd Revised Edition :The American Wilderness/Time-Life Books
by Abbey, Edward; (Harvey B. Loomis, Editor)
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New York, NY: Time-Life Books, 1979. Revised Edition, 1979 3rd Printing. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Time-Life Books (Photography). BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE, w/light push to lower front corner of highgloss bords. DJ/None as Issued . First published 1973; this is the Third Printing, Revised Edition, First Thus of 1979. Boards w/black linen spine (denoting Library Edition)/NEW. DJ/None as Issued. COVER ART: "Giant Saguaros of Arizona"; photo. DJ/None as Issued. Published w/o ISBN; ISBN subsequently assigned. Natural history of some 69,000 square miles of southern Arizona and northern Mexico desert lands, llustrated with photos. Covering near half of the Sonora Desert. Text is by Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989), long resident of the American Southwest, and who immortalized the region in Desert Solitaire and Abbey's Road. 7 chapters: 1, The Real Desert; 2, The Mountains of Superstition; 3, Winters in Oregon Pipe: The Lavis, Frugal Cacti; 4, The Sacred Peak; 5, Wild Palms & Gold Mines; 6, Down to the Sea of Cortes; and 7, The Ancient Dust: Rock, Sand & Solitude. A collaborative work between a naturalist gifted in prose and superb photography from the staff of Time-Life Books.
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- Title
- CACTUS COUNTRY : 1979, 3rd Revised Edition :The American Wilderness/Time-Life Books
- Author
- Abbey, Edward; (Harvey B. Loomis, Editor)
- Illustrator
- Time-Life Books (Photography)
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- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
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- None as Issued
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- Revised Edition, 1979 3rd Printing
- Publisher
- Time-Life Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1979
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- Nature/Ecology/Sonoran Desert/Arizona/Mexico/American Southwest
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