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A Season in Sarawak
by Mora Dickson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair +/N/A
- Seller
-
Jelutong, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
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About This Item
London: Dennis Dobson, 1962. Hardcover. Fair +/N/A. The author, who together with her husband, had had previous experience of providing technical assistance in Africa paid a visit to Sarawak in the 1950s. The first part of this book is an account of their stay and their discovery that rural youth lacked educational and technical support. The remainder of the book describes a scheme to send young volunteers from the UK in an attempt to provide that support. From this experience they both established the world wide British volunteer body Voluntary Service Overseas, which, in turn, prompted President Kennedy to establish the US Peace Corps. Fair Hardback. 216 pages with several line drawings by the author. Weight: 0.4 kg Post free within Malaysia The spine covering which is coming away from the spine has suffered insect attack as have the cover edges. A previous owner's name is written on a front end paper. The binding is tight, the text clear and there is mild tanning of the pages.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Penang Bookshelf
(MY)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ML4829A
- Title
- A Season in Sarawak
- Author
- Mora Dickson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair +
- Jacket Condition
- N/A
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Dennis Dobson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- Malaysia - Borneo - Sarawak - Memoirs
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About the Seller
The Penang Bookshelf
Biblio member since 2010
Jelutong, Pulau Pinang
About The Penang Bookshelf
The Penang Bookshelf was set up in mid 2010 principally to introduce Malaysian residents to the variety of books there is available about the country both past and present. We only stock fiction and non-fiction related to Malaysia and the rest of Asia. Much of our current stock of over a thousand different titles is not available in Malaysia. Conversely much of our stock published in Malaysia is difficult to find outside the country. So if there\'s something Malaysia related that you\'re looking for, do please contact us and we\'ll do our best to help. At present details of most of our stock is not on line; we hope it will be eventually!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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