Brazilian Adventure
by Fleming, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's cloth, faded green topstain, map endpgs. First edition with Scribner's A. Mild foxing to cloth, spine faintly softened. Firm and square. The DJ in mylar is sunned to spine, lightly edgeworn. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 412 pages .
Synopsis
Brazilian Adventure is a book by Peter Fleming about his search for the lost Colonel Percy Fawcett in the Brazilian jungle. Fawcett along with his son and another companion had disappeared while searching for the Lost City of Z in 1925. Fleming was working as literary editor for The Times when he answered a small ad asking for volunteers to join an expedition to find out what had happened to Fawcett. The story of Fleming's 1932 expedition is told in Brazilian Adventure.
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Details
- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45023
- Title
- Brazilian Adventure
- Author
- Fleming, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1934
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