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The Mosquito Coast
by Theroux, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good (-)/Very Good (-)
- ISBN 10
- 0241106885
- ISBN 13
- 9780241106884
- Seller
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Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981. Place/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked olive cloth boards, foxing to top of page edges, faint partial crease to spine and minor bumping to some corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked with small tear near spine foot.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (-)/Very Good (-). 8.75 x 5.75 inches.
Synopsis
In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Godley Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025908
- Title
- The Mosquito Coast
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (-)
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good (-)
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0241106885
- ISBN 13
- 9780241106884
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- Travels, Adventure, Central America
- Size
- 8.75 x 5.75 inches
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