Publicado por Phoenix Orion, 2000
ISBN 10: 184212160X ISBN 13: 9781842121603
Librería: Allyouneedisbooks Ltd, Westbury, WILTS, Reino Unido
New Edition. Condición: fine. 1st Phoenix trade 2000 edition paperback fine condition. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.
Publicado por Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2001
ISBN 10: 0297643851 ISBN 13: 9780297643852
Librería: Great Southern Books, King River, WA, Australia
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 246 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust jacket is fine condition. The spine is just a little sun faded. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. A fine unread copy. This book is available and ready to be shipped. This book is a retelling of Robinson Crusoe in which the real hero is the island; a parable of nature surviving the colonising ambitions of man. It is based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on the island of Juan Fernandez in the South Seas. Selkirk had been sailing master of the galley Cinque-Ports , a companion to the St George , commanded by Captain William Dampier, which left England on a privateering expedition in 1703. In September 1704, after a violent quarrel with his captain Thomas Stradling, Selkirk was put ashore on Juan Fernandez, where he lived in solitude for four years until picked up by another Dampier expedition, this time commanded by Woodes Rogers and Edward Cooke, in 1709. The story of these voyages - culled from contemporary accounts by Cooke, Rogers, Dampier and Selkirk himself - forms the core of Selkirk's Island , but it is framed by the environmental history of Juan Fernandez. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Scotland; 18th century; History. ISBN: 0297643851. ISBN/EAN: 9780297643852. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8594.
Publicado por Starmount Publishing, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 0993421806 ISBN 13: 9780993421808
Librería: David Bunnett Books, London, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
SOFTCOVER. 1st Edition. Very large Square 4to in stiff card covers, unpaginated, approx. 50pp on thick glossy art paper, colour plates, etc. Artists' book CONDITION: An almost AS NEW unread and unmarked copy (slight surface bumping to front cover) ] ._ __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.