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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Assumed 1st ed. Red cloth with black lettering and border to fr. only, generally clean, trivial sp. end rubbing. viii + 59, fairly heavy patchy tanning to outer sides of end-papers plus a couple or so trivial marginal spots the only obvious fault. Text is in dialogue format between 'Sophron' and 'Mnemon'. Apparently scarce and something of a oddity as philosophical literature by this date.12 cm x 18.5 cm.…

Zustand: New. Examines the literatures of the Caribbean from an ecocritical perspective in all language areas of the region. This book explores the ways in which the history of transplantation and settlement has provided unique challenges and opportunities for establishing a sense of place and an environmental ethic in the Caribbean. Editor(s): DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M.; Gosson, Renee K.; Handley, George B. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 498. . 2006. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1933). 1933 1st edition. 8vo (138 x 221mm). Ppxvi,268,ii[ads]. B/w photograph plates, illustrations, end-papers maps showing India, Burma and the Malay Peninsula. Slight use and wear to cloth, hinges tender, slight foxing. Reading copy. Major Handley describes two decades of big game hunting and observations of his surroundings, in India, Burma, the Mergui archipelago, and Malaya. "The knowledge and experience of twenty-two years are [here]; and the yearning desire to express them. But the ink was wrung from my infacile pen, even as the blood drops from the brow of a martyr. .I have striven to depart from the normal account of indiscriminate slaughter, and the incredibly dismal unfolding of the correct paraphernalia, and methods, necessary to outwit the jungle denizens. Striven to interest not only the tyro - eager to absorb jungle lore - but to inflame the average, out-door-loving reader with the glamour and romance of these vast green silences." Slightly over-written (see preceding quote) but nevertheless engaging and interesting. Chapters include: 'Jungle wise'; Gondia - the mhowa-scented valleys of laughter; Smoke in the wind; Through the Mergui archipelago to farthest Tenasserim; The man-eater of Danauli; Tanoy, Siamese; Another point of view; The great blue hills of Ranga. . …