Author: Paul B. Du Chaillu Title: The Land of the Midnight Sun: Summer and Winter Journeys Through Sweden, Norway, Lapland, and Northern Finland with Descriptions of the Inner Life of the People, Their Manners and Customs, the Primitive Antiquities, Etc.
Description: London, George Newnes, Limited, 1899. Leather. A smart new edition of this exciting work of travel writing from Paul Du Chaillu. New edition. Illustrated throughout with frontispiece, a folding map, and over two hundred and fifty in-text illustrations, some of which are full-paged. Collated complete. An account of the peninsula of Scandinavia and the life of its people through a series of journeys made by the author, with stories from the Arctic circle, the fjords, islands, and much more. Written by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu, a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. Bound in half calf with brown cloth boards. Externally, smart with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor loss to the leather, particularly the spine. Joints starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light spotting to the first and last few pages. Tear of approx. 3" to folding map due to handling. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: Land Midnight Sun Sweden Midnight Finland Chaillu None
Price: GBP 60.00 = appr. US$ 85.68 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 857T83
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