Among wild tribes of the amazons. An account of exploration & adventures on the mighty Amazon & its confluents, with descriptions of the savage head-hunting & anthropophagous tribes inhabating their Banks
Libros antiguos y modernos
Domville-Fife, Charles W.
Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1925,
Among wild tribes of the amazons. An account of exploration & adventures on the mighty Amazon & its confluents, with descriptions of the savage head-hunting & anthropophagous tribes inhabating their Banks
Libros antiguos y modernos
Domville-Fife, Charles W.
Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1925,
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- Autor
- Domville-Fife, Charles W.
- Editores
- Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1925
- Materia
- Indians Indiani America
- Descripción
- S
- Sobrecubierta
- False
- Conservación
- Bueno
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Copia autógrafa
- False
- Primera edición
- False
Descripción
First American edition. 8vo [22 x 15 cm]; 282 pp, frontis of shrunken head, numerous illus from photos, 6 maps including foldout, index. orig pictorial red gilt cloth, gilt lettering on spine, , very good copy. A thrilling tale of hairbreadth escapes, one of the best books of travel and exploration for some years (contemporary reviews). One of the better travel works of the period with descriptions of the native peoples, their customs, society, beliefs based on the author's extensive travels.
