Kavango
by Mertens, Alice
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
(Cape Town: Purnell, 1974) 360002331. First edition. 4to; original white boards, lettered in brown on spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. (xvi) + 120; plates in colour and monochrome; map. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; trace of foxing to half-title. Very good condition. "KAVANGO is a unique photo study of the Kavango, tribes living in the isolation of the northern border lands of South West Africa adjoining Angola and Botswana. Virtually untouched by civilization until recent years these river people still practise many ancient customs handed down in an unwritten culture dating back many hundreds of years." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12501
- Title
- Kavango
- Author
- Mertens, Alice
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: Purnell, 1974) 360002331
- Keywords
- Anthropology. Anthropology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
All books offered subject to availability. Returns are accepted where we have erred materially in our description of goods.
About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Dustwrapper
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