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L.M. NESBITT Desolate Marches, Travels in the Orinocco Llanos of Venezuela
Jonathan Cape. 1935, First Edition. Cloth. Ilustraciones: La visión de Caracas, Casa de Don Felipe, Guanta, El Cedeño, Barcelona, Clarines, Guanape, las Ruinas de la Vieja Panamá, Mapa de Caracas. Su segundo libro es el registro de una revisión de la ingeniería de una extensión enorme de la Cuenca del Río Orinoco, para una empresa americana de petróleo. ¡Un territorio extraño, olvidado, estos Llanos de Venezuela del Norte!. Hace mucho el Colono español realizó y usó sus posibilidades, pero el tiempo ha dejado sólo unas reliquias abandonadas de aquel capítulo pasado. Illustrations: Caraca's view, House of Don Felipe, Guanta, El Cedeño, Barcelona, Clarines, Guanape, Ruins of Old Panama, Map of Caracas. With his first book, Deserts and Forests, Nesbitt revealed himself not only as an adventurous and skilled traveller, but as one with an outstanding descriptive gift. In Desolate Marches he shows this double merits again. His second book is the record of an engineering survey of a vast stretch of the Orinocco Basin, for an american petroleum company. A strange, forgotten territory, these Llanos of Northern Venezuela. Long ago the Spanish Colonist realized and used their possibilities, but time has left only a few derelict relics of that past chapter, and so far as modern development go it is a virgin tract of country. As New/As New.
Offered for EUR 44.00 = appr. US$ 56.77 by: El Arte de la Memoria scp - Book number: nesbitt1935
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