Colvile captain (1 Ergebnisse)
Weitere BilderVerlag: London Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington, 1880
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Shapero Rare Books, London, Vereinigtes KönigreichShapero Rare Books
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First edition; 8vo ( 20 x 15 cm); pictorial frontispiece, folding plates, one follding map; publisher's gilt decorated cloth; a very good copy; xvi, 328 pp. This is the author's first book and it is a charming account of his travels with his wife through Morocco from Tangier to Fez. Captain Colvile, a member of the Grenadier Gua…rds, with his wife, start the journey on horseback in their Western clothes. However they soon realise they would be more comfortable in the local costume of robes, petticoats and slippers. Playfair 1361.
