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The sea and the jungle. / H. M. Tomlinson. Illustrated with wood engravings by Garrick Palmer.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC9 T5975 912s 1971
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major), 1873-1958.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major), 1873-1958--Travel--Brazil.
- Tomlinson, H. M.
- Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major), 1873-1958.
- Travel.
- Brazil.
- Capella (Ship).
- Amazon River--Description and travel.
- Amazon River.
- Madeira River (Brazil and Bolivia)--Description and travel.
- Madeira River (Brazil and Bolivia).
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Palmer, Garrick (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 221 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, map. ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Sea & the jungle
- Sea and the jungle: being the narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer Capella from Swansea to Santa María de Belem do Grâo Pará in the Brazils, and thence 2,000 miles along the forests of the Amazon and Madeira rivers to the San Antonio Falls; afterwards returning to Barbados for orders, and going by way of Jamaica to Tampa in Florida, where she loaded for home. Done in the years 1909 and 1910
- Place of Publication:
- Barre, Massachusetts : The Imprint Society, 1971.
- Notes:
- "First published 1912."
- "This edition copyright 1971 by The Imprint Society, Inc."
- Introduction by David McCord.
- Blue endpapers.
- "'The Sea and the Jungle' has been printed for Imprint Society members in an edition limited to 1950 copies. Designed and produced in London by Ruari McLean, the book was composed in 'Monotype' Bembo and printed from type of W. & J. Mackay in Chatham, England. The paper is Basingwerk Parchment, manufactured by Grosvenor Chater & Co. Ltd. The binding in quarter black morocco and buckram was executed by Mackay Binders. The illustrations, printed from the block, were engraved on wood by Garrick Palmer of Cowplain, Hampshire ..."
- Leather spine printed in gilt with green boards with gilt decoration on front cover. Top edge stained; all edges trimmed.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy housed in illustrated slipcase.
- Culture Class Collection copy is number 269 signed by Garrick Palmer.
- ISBN:
- 0876360118
- OCLC:
- 130900
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