Search Results: TRAVEL / South America from Tangible Tales

Vancouver: Greystone Books, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Signed by the author, without inscription, on the title page above the printed name. Black hardcover with copper spine titles, first edition in dustjacket. A good+ copy with wear at the spine tips minor general wear ot the board edges. A clean, straight copy in solid binding. The jacket is also good with matching wear at the ends of the spine panel and ruffling to the edge. 247 pp., bibliography at rear. Canadian author with great wit and a beautiful experience in the Galapagos.

Puerto Rico: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, 1995. Paperback. Good +. Oversize paperbound with text in English and Portuguese. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, "A Kheryn, uma boa colega e amiga, John Parrotta Washington October 2005." A good+ copy with wear to the cover edges and minor bending at the corners. Some scuffs to the dark black covers, most obvious on the blank rear cover. Interior is actually very good - clean and unmarked, tight as if unread. And the pictures are full color and beautiful. 371 pp., photos on nearly every page - a detailed and enticing study of the trees of the Tapajos river in the Amazon rainforest.