About this title: Redmond O'Hanlon found few experienced adventurers willing to accompany him on his four-month trip up the Orinoco river and across the Amazon Basin. He wondered why...Was it perhaps the fear of contracting dysentery, rabies or river blindness? Or maybe it was a disinclination to meet peckish jaguars, vipers, anacondas and 640-volt electric eels? Surely it couldn't possibly be reluctance to swim among giant catfish, with their relatively harmless penchant for nipping off a person's feet? Fortunately, an old friend volunteered, having absolutely no idea what he was letting himself in for. But, ...
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780241123751ISBN:0241123755
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780241123751ISBN:0241123755
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly P
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780871132499ISBN:0871132494
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780140119008ISBN:0140119000
Description: Good. This book is in GOOD overall condition. It shows signs of having been read and has general light wear to the cover, spine and pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780140119008ISBN:0140119000
Description: Good. This book is in GOOD overall condition. It shows signs of having been read and has general light wear to the cover, spine and pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780241123751ISBN:0241123755
Description: Good. This book is in GOOD overall condition. It shows signs of having been read and has general light wear to the cover, spine and pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780140119008ISBN:0140119000
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Edition: First U. S. Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780871132499ISBN:0871132494
Description: Very Good in Very Good/ Price Clipped jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Light spotting on bottom right corner of front cover and jacket flap. Gift inscription on first blank fly leaf, otherwise, inside is clean and tight. read more
Description: Photographs. Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall A little creasing to covers. B/W photographs. Pages evenly tanned. Bindings tight. Clean condition. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Books, London
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780140119008ISBN:0140119000
Description: Good+ 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. PB, pictorial card covers, G+/--, 347pp, bibliography, index, b/w plates. Moderate rubbing to edges and creases to corners of covers, a sticker remnant to lower back cover, inside has age tanning to edges, slight lean to spine, else square, clean and tight without markings. An agonisingly funny four-month trip up the Orinoco and across the Amazon Basin. Of course there are the gory details of the natural hazards which he encountered in the form of diseases, nasty ... read more
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