The Thirsty Land by Brown, John

London Hodder And Stoughton, 1954. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1954. First Printed. 192 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white photographic plates. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to gutters, text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light thumb marking present throughout. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has minor sunning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Some minor tanning, creasing and scuffing overall.

London, The Travel BookClub, nd;. Hardback. Very good/ Dj Good. 192pp with numerous illustrations. Cream covers with title on spine. Dust jacke thas closed tears, edge wear. " Real life adventure: the record of a light-hearted journey across the great Thirstland of Southern Arfica in the winter f 1952/53." .

dirty cream: Travel Book Club, 1954. Hardcover. Used: Acceptable. Condition fair, no dust jacket. ref ZKVQ

(London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1954). 8vo; original red boards, lettered in black on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 192 including index; frontispiece portrait, black-and-white plates. Dustwrapper somewhat edgeworn and rubbed, with archival tape repairs to reverse; earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown; a little foxing. Good to very good condition. "This is an unpretentious account of a light-hearted journey across the great Thirstland of southern Africa in the winter of 1952-53. The old Boer pioneers named the area well, for hundreds of them died of thirst in the parched wilderness. Our search in the waste of the Namib Desert and Kalahari, aided by the new tools of science, was for information and underground water resources. We visualized new towns and great cattle ranches on a Texas pattern, but knew that everything has to start in a small way." .

(London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1954 First Edition). 8vo; original red cloth, no dustwrapper; pp. 192 including index; frontispiece portrait, black-and-white plates. Uniform browning throughout. Very good condition. "This is an unpretentious account of a light-hearted journey across the great Thirstland of southern Africa in the winter of 1952-53. The old Boer pioneers named the area well, for hundreds of them died of thirst in the parched wilderness. Our search in the waste of the Namib Desert and Kalahari, aided by the new tools of science, was for information and underground water resources. We visualized new towns and great cattle ranches on a Texas pattern, but knew that everything has to start in a small way." .

Hodder and Stroughton Limited, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, torn, slightly marked and edge worn. Now protected in cellophane. The condition of the book is given in terms of the book's age. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. VG. (1954). 1st ptg. Travel across great Thirstland of south Africa in 1952-53 in a quest for underground water resources. Red binding. Edge wear. .

Hodder and Stoughton, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The boards are rubbed and marked.Some foxing.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. The jacket is a bit shelf rubbed and a bit chipped.Internally clean and tightly bound.EK.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hodder, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. The jacket is a bit worn and torn but has suffered little paper loss. Internally clean and tightly bound. One notation.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.