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Adventures of a Botanist's Wife
by Eleanor Bor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- Seller
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hurst & Blackett Ltd, London, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. b/w. map end-papers; the life of a Scottish born English woman who spent the early years of her marriage to an Irish botanist, living in primitive conditions, in the remote forests of northern India, eventually taking up residence at the Forest Research Institute in Dehra Dun, followed Dr Bor (an extremely able linguist) getting involved in the war effort as director of a programme dealing with refugees fleeing from the Japanese. Finally, the book describes their walking to Tibet in tennis shoes before returning to the UK when Dr Bor was appointed Assistant Director at Kew Gardens. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 204 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is fully intact but carries signs of wear to top and bottom of spine; now in archive acetate film protection. Price clipped inside book. Gilt titles spine. illustrated by b/w. drawings & photo's.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Botany; Travel & Places; Indigenous Cultures; India; 1930s to 40s; Natural History & Resources. Inventory No: 4185. .
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- Bookseller
- Bookbarrow
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4185
- Title
- Adventures of a Botanist's Wife
- Author
- Eleanor Bor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hurst & Blackett Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Autobiography/Natural History/Botany/Indigenous Cultures/Himalayas/Travel/India/Tibet Biography & Autobiography; Botany; Travel & Places; Indigenous Cultures; India; 1930s to 40s; Natural History & Resources. Unbranded Eleanor Bor Ad
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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