Last of the Medicine Men
by Allen, Benedict
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- VG++/F/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 0563551216
- ISBN 13
- 9780563551218
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK ?AUTHOR SIGNED AND DEDICATED," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Stated 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour-photo illustrated dust wrapper (Amam Dirikogo from Siberut Island). NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £17.99. Minimal shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. Single crease to front flap. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Author signed and dedicated to title page. ?Jane, Best Wishes from Ben Allen,? Very slight marks to end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning. VG++* Illustrations: Four x 8pp. blocks of colour photos within text.* Pages: 237 pp. text. iv pp. bibliography, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Benedict Allen takes the title of his latest book from the disparaging term which used to describe workers of African magic. As he writes in Last of the Medicine Men, people in the West have never come to terms with the spiritual dimension of peoples around the world--so, in this new adventure, Allen travels to remote corners of Indonesia, Siberia, Haiti and Mexico, in search of a natural unity. The author examines diverse cultures that include the shanty towns of Haiti, the jungles of Siberut Island and the mountains of Mexico. This book accompanies a series of programmes devoted to the customs and rituals of witch doctors and shamans.* A NEAR FINE, author signed copy of the 1st/1st. with minor faults reducing it to VG++*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1916
- Title
- Last of the Medicine Men
- Author
- Allen, Benedict
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/F/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0563551216
- ISBN 13
- 9780563551218
- Publisher
- BBC Worldwide
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 240
- Date Published
- 2000-09-28
- Size
- 23.4 x 16.6 x 3 cm
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