Land to the West: St. Brendan's Voyage to America
by Ashe, Geoffrey
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London, England: Collins, 1962. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. 352 pages. Hardcover. Includes appendices, bibliography & index. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear (see image). Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Tanning to pages and edges from age, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. Before Columbus, before the Vikings, did Ireland's St. Brendan make a North Atlantic crossing? Record # 32390
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32390
- Title
- Land to the West: St. Brendan's Voyage to America
- Author
- Ashe, Geoffrey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- History, Exploration, , .
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- 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....