The Land of Oil and Winds: Letters from Baku
by Toernudd, Gustaf and Eleanor Antell Virgil (transl.)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: Vantage Press, 1975. Hardcover. 79p., 5.5x8.25 inches, red boards, dj lightly shelfworn, very good. Letters to his family from a Finnish engineer who headed an oil drilling company in Baku, Azerbaijan in the 1880s. Well-written and nicely translated into English, they offer insights into life on the wind-swept steppes bordering the Caspian Sea. The petroleum interests were owned the Nobel brothers, later best known for endowing the Nobel Prizes.
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- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 243124
- Title
- The Land of Oil and Winds: Letters from Baku
- Author
- Toernudd, Gustaf and Eleanor Antell Virgil (transl.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Vantage Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Bookseller catalogs
- Russian history; Travel; Oil, petroleum; 1880s; Finland;
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