The first major study of travel writing as a literary form and of travel as a cultural phenomenon. Weaving biography, history, and literary criticism together, Cocker explores the lives and works of a dozen major explorer/writers and paints fascinating portraits of the places that have obsessed them. Photographs.
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The first major study of travel writing as a literary form and of travel as a cultural phenomenon. Weaving biography, history, and literary criticism together, Cocker explores the lives and works of a dozen major explorer/writers and paints fascinating portraits of the places that have obsessed them. Photographs.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images unmarked. One dog-eared page. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.
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Used Very Good in Good jacket. DJ has some small tears, edge and corner wear, but still intact. Front and back covers are almost undamaged, with very slight edge and corner wear. Spine intact and undamaged with no creasing or warping. Binding is tight and intact, pages clean and unmarked. In very nice, but previously owned condition with minimal damage. Firefly Bookstore sells items online and in our store front. We try to add images and descriptions when we can, but if you need additional information or photos of the books we list, please contact us.
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Very Good in Fine jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Type: Hard Back First American Printing. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket in mylar cover. Tan quarter cloth with blue titles, beige boards. Slight wear to lower edges of boards. No other edgewear. Solid, square, sharp corners. Nine photographic reproductions. Interior is Fine. Bright, fine jacket is not clipped. A pioneering study of travel writing as a literary form and of travel as a cultural phenomena; an intermixture of history, biography, literary criticism. Illustrations. ix + 294 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Pantheon Books, New York, 1993.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Type: Hard Back First American Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. A pioneering study of travel writing as a literary form and of travel as a cultural phenomena; an intermixture of history, biography, literary criticism. Binding of tan quarter cloth with blue titles, beige boards. Clean, unmarked book, solid and square with sharp corners. Nine photographic reproductions. Bright, fine jacket is not clipped. ix + 294 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 1993, Pantheon Books, New York, New York, USA.
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New. Size: 6x1x9; [Stated First American Edition] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. ix, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations; 24 cm. Mark Cocker offers a fertile mixture of biography, history, and literary criticism in his portraits of some of the most prominent twentieth-century British explorer-writers-including Wilfred Thesiger, Laurens van der Post, Gavin Maxwell, and Lawrence Durrell-and of the places-Greece, Tibet-that obsessed them.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0679422420. About new book but for tiny red check to front endpaper; remainder line; in slightly rubbed DJ.; 1.25 x 9.75 x 6.5 Inches; 294 pages.
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F in F- jacket. F/F-. 8vo. original beige cloth backed boards in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a trifle rubbed); pp. x, 294, with illustrations. A fine copy.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. New York: Pantheon Books. 1992. First Edition. 294 pages. 8 pages. of photographs. Notes, bibliography. Includes discussion of Thesiger, van der Post, Durrell. *A fertile mixture of biography, history and literary criticism*. Cloth, fine copy in fine dust jacket in a mylar protector.