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Esprit de Battuta
by Pamela Watson
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1854106295
- ISBN 13
- 9781854106292
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Aurum Press, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. London: Aurum Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. Fine First Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean deep blue cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright with map-illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with maps and full-color photographs. 342 pages. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A great true adventure story of a young woman who decided to bicycle across Africa, alone. Cycling for a year and a half, covering nearly 15,000 kilometers and crossing through seventeen countries on her route from Dakar on the Atlantic to Dar Es Salaam on the Indian Ocean, she encountered an Africa rarely reportedi n the media--and experienced first hand the violent tinderbox of local politics..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028772
- Title
- Esprit de Battuta
- Author
- Pamela Watson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 1854106295
- ISBN 13
- 9781854106292
- Publisher
- Aurum Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- ADVENTURE, TRAVEL, AFRICA, PAMEL WATSON, BICYCLING JOURNEYS, CYCLING TRIPS, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel;
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