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Beyond the Caspian : A Naturalist in Central Asia
by Carruthers, Douglas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0896582647
- ISBN 13
- 9780896582644
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. 0896582647 . Pencil marginalia. Yellow highlighting on a couple of pages. Tears to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket has been laminated in clear plastic. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; xx, 290 pages + 6 colour plates (including frontispiece) + 18 black and white illustrations on plate leaves (1 double page) + 1 colour map. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 214 x 139mm. "Douglas Carruthers, gold medallist of the Royal Geographical Society, explorer, naturalist, and collector, tells of his travels and hunting experiences over several years in the great deserts and mountain ranges of Russian Central Asia, and particularly of the animals and birds of which he was in search, many of which proved new to science. Although he was primarily interested in the natural history of the regions traversed, yet he conveys an intimate picture of those strange capitals at the back of the world, Bukhara and Samarkand, of the inhabitants of ancient Farghana, as fiery as the horses for which they are famous, of those who dwell by the mighty Oxus, of those who pasture over the high Pamirs." - from dust-jacket blurb. [References: Czech, Asian p. 44; .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25232
- Title
- Beyond the Caspian : A Naturalist in Central Asia
- Author
- Carruthers, Douglas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0896582647
- ISBN 13
- 9780896582644
- Publisher
- Oliver and Boyd
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- 0896582647
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About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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