Across the Roof of the World.
by SKREDE, WILFRED
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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About This Item
London.: Staples Press.. 1954.. Translated from the Norwegian. Endpaper maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 255pp. Edges foxed, dustjacket torn with some loss and cellotape repair, but otherwise a sound hardback copy, 20 x 13.5cm. Norwegian explorer's travels from war-torn Europe through Turkestan, the Himalayas and India and eventually to his new life in Canada. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Asia Bookroom (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 215110
- Title
- Across the Roof of the World.
- Author
- SKREDE, WILFRED
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Staples Press.
- Place of Publication
- London.
- Date Published
- 1954.
- Keywords
- Asia, India, Silk Road, Tibet, Travel, Travellers Accounts, Xinjiang, zz_Gallery_Out_of_Print_and_Secondhand_Books, zz_ListOn_eBay
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
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Asia Bookroom issues regular specialised book lists on Asia and invite you to let us know your interests so that we can let you know of new arrivals as they come in to stock. And if you are in Australia's capital city Canberra we hope you will visit our shop!
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- New
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- Edges
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...