Tent Life in Siberia
by George Kennan
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0879052546
- ISBN 13
- 9780879052546
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
$13.00$9.10
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About This Item
Salt Lake City, UT: A Peregrine Smith Book / Gibbs M. Smith, Inc. , 1987 A Peregrine Smith Book / Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT. 1987. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light rubbing to wraps; light edge bumping; light toning to textblock ends. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 425 pp 8vo. The author was a member of the Russo-American Telegraph Company Siberian exploration party from 1865 to 1868. This book tells the story of the failed effort to link Europe and America with telegraph lines via Siberia. It also tells of the geography, flora and fauna, and the harsh polar realities that the author experienced in Siberia and Kamchatka. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014907
- Title
- Tent Life in Siberia
- Author
- George Kennan
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0879052546
- ISBN 13
- 9780879052546
- Publisher
- A Peregrine Smith Book / Gibbs M. Smith, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Siberia, Kamchatka, Russia, Alaska, United States, telegraph lines, Trans-Siberian telegraph line, polar explorers, snow and ice,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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