Shabono
by Donner, Florinda
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0440078288
- ISBN 13
- 9780440078289
- Seller
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
Item Price
NZ$28.25NZ$14.12
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About This Item
New York: Delacorte Press, 1982. A visit to a remote and magical world in the heart of the South American jungle. "Shabono" reveals the life of another culture by drawing the reader into its strange and unique world. Ms. Donner, an anthropologist, travelled into the deep jungle between Venezuela and Brazil to study the "curing" or witchcraft practices, of certain Indian tribes. It is the story of her total immersion in a primitive society and its exotic way of life. Blue boards....black cloth spine....gilt title print to spine. This book carries remainder spray to bottom edge. It remains clean, bright and square in an illustrated dust jacket by Judith Leeds. The price remains intact.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gilt Edge Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A1762
- Title
- Shabono
- Author
- Donner, Florinda
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0440078288
- ISBN 13
- 9780440078289
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- Anthropology South American Tribes Yanomama Indiand Witchcraft Travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non-fiction;
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