About this title: On the day after Christmas 1926, avant-garde poet Henri Michaux began a year-long journey to Ecuador as "a man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal". In the process, he created the first truly modern travel book, a work of pointed observation and sensual, even hallucinogenic, poetry and prose. Michaux set out to record a ...
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Edition: First English Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Washington Press, Seattle
Date Published: 1970
Description: Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall The book traces a 1927-28 journey Michaux took from Amsterdam, through the Panama Canal to Quito, down the Amazon to Para, Brazil, and back to France. The account, translated and with an informative Introduction by Robert Magowan, fascinatingly mingles prose and poetry; 132 pages. CONDITION: The book itself is solid and bright, with minimal shelf-wear, unmarked but for the previous owner's signature inside, compromised only by some age-yellowing ... read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780295785837ISBN:0295785837
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. English text. First Thus Edition. NF/NF. Hardcover, black boards with silver gilt titles, DJ, 132 pp, slight edgewear with DJ price clipped, else a clean and crisp copy. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NORTHWESTERN UNIV PR
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780810160910ISBN:0810160919
Description: New. Avant-garde poet Henri Michaux boarded a steamship bound for Ecuador in December 1927 as "a man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal. " He set out to record a journey, but his vivid descriptions, his unexpected leaps of thought, p... read more
Edition: 1st American e
Binding: cloth /board
Publisher: University of Washington Pre, Seattle, Washington
Date Published: 1970
Description: Good DJ, monor wear, no tears, price clipped. Interior&boards fin, DJ present. 132, Ecuador traces a journey Michaux took in 1927-28 from Amsterdam through. The Panama Canal to Quito, down the Amazon to Para, Brazil and back to France. It is written in both poetry and prose. Beautifully written. read more
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