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The Tigris Expedition; In Search of Our Beginnings
by Thor Heyerdahl
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385173571
- ISBN 13
- 9780385173575
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1981 Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY. 1981. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for gift inscription on the FFFP dated 1981. Book Condition: Very Good; bumped lower tips; light sun fading to top and bottom edges of spine. DJ: Good; missing small piece at head; wear to head, tail, and tips; slight wear to flap folds. Black boards with green cloth overlay on the spine with gilt lettering on the spine. Maps as endpapers. 349 pp 8vo. This was a voyage into antiquity as the crew traced the trade routes of civilizations that flourished a thousand years before the birth of Christ, aboard a reed ship built after a pattern that was more than three millennia old. The ship traveled the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea demonstrating how the seeds of culture and civilization spread across the globe. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009015
- Title
- The Tigris Expedition; In Search of Our Beginnings
- Author
- Thor Heyerdahl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385173571
- ISBN 13
- 9780385173575
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- civilization, Indus Valley, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Middle East Africa, trade routes, Tigris, Garden of Eden, Makan, Arabian Sea, Indus Valley Civilization, Pakistan, Somaliland, land of Punt, Tigris Expedition,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Jacket
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- Book Club Edition
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
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