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Picturing Tropical Nature
by Stepan, Nancy Leys
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0801438810
- ISBN 13
- 9780801438813
- Seller
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Spring Green, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2001. first edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 283 pages, 24cm tall, octavo. Black cloth with gilt title on spine. This title remedies some of the most persistent misrepresentations of tropical regions and people through a critical examination of the work of Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Louis Agassiz, Sir Patrick Manson, Margaret Mee, and others. Fine in a fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Sandhill Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00004791
- Title
- Picturing Tropical Nature
- Author
- Stepan, Nancy Leys
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN 10
- 0801438810
- ISBN 13
- 9780801438813
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Place of Publication
- Ithaca, New York
- Date Published
- 2001
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- Art;
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