SACRED MONKEY RIVER: A Canoe Trip with the Gods
by Shaw, Christopher
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0393048373
- ISBN 13
- 9780393048377
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York/London: W. W. Norton & Company, (2000).. (2000).. Very good. - Octavo, boards in a dust wrapper. The rear panel of the dust wrapper is lightly rubbed & the bottom corner of its front panel is lightly creased. 316 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white maps and with blue-and-white endpaper maps. Near fine. <p>First edition.<p>From the library of Peter Matthiessen. Laid is a typed letter signed by Charlie Ritchie of Saranac Lake, New York, sending him this book which is "the work of a good friend Chris Shaw". He writes that the book reminds him of Matthiessen's deceased father, architect and conservationist Erard Matthiessen, who had been a valued friend and had taken an interest in a lawsuit Ritchie had instigated against New York State over pollution of Upper Saranac Lake.<p>Broadcaster, canoeist and former whitewater guide Christopher Shaw made a canoe trip along the Usumacinta River. The river's basin lying on the border between Mexico and Guatemala was the cradle of the Mesoamerican civilizations. "The man-made vehicle of the region's culture and civilization was the canoe, the medium for the "Watery Path" connecting the sacred world with the earthly face of the cosmos...." [From the dust wrapper copy].
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32850
- Title
- SACRED MONKEY RIVER: A Canoe Trip with the Gods
- Author
- Shaw, Christopher
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393048373
- ISBN 13
- 9780393048377
- Publisher
- New York/London: W. W. Norton & Company, (2000).
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (2000).
- Keywords
- TRAVEL; CENTRAL AMERICA; MEXICO; GUATEMALA; MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS; USUMACINTA RIVER; SACRED MONKEY RIVER: A Canoe Trip with the Gods; CHRISTOPHER SHAW; PETER MATTHIESSEN; ERARD A. MATTHIESSEN; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.
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