Mountain Odyssey in Southern Africa
by Coulson, David (photographs), and James Clarke (text)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Johannesburg: Macmillan, 1983). Small folio; original blue boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. 240, incl. index; several maps and monochrome illustrations; full-colour photographic plates. Dustwrapper has been covered with additional lamination by previous owner; gift inscription on reverse of front free endpaper; section of fore-edge of several pages (pp. 63-74) badly scuffed, somewhat defacing a few pictures. Good condition. "Mountain Odyssey covers a vast area both in terms of scale and content. Filled with information on all the major ranges, it serves admirably as a unique work of reference on the mountains of Southern Africa, as well as a pictorial treasury for all those who share a love of wild places." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 903
- Title
- Mountain Odyssey in Southern Africa
- Author
- Coulson, David (photographs), and James Clarke (text)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (Johannesburg: Macmillan, 1983)
- Keywords
- Mountains. Mountaineering. Wilderness. Mountain ranges. Southern Africa. Drakensberg. Eastern Highlands. Magaliesberg Outdoors
- Bookseller catalogs
- Outdoors;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
All books offered subject to availability. Returns are accepted where we have erred materially in our description of goods.
About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...