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Secondhand book for saleEvan S. Connell.
El Dorado and Other Pursuits.
Published London: Pimlico, 2002 (previously issued by Holt Rhinehart & Winston, 1979, under the title A Long Desire).
ISBN 0712668179;
ISBN-13: 9780712668170.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Mackays of Chatham.
Size: 153×233×21mm.
Page count: 275pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the covers on this copy shows are a bit grubby, the usual scuffs and marks, noticeable but not too severe; rather yellowed with age; otherwise doesn’t look heavily used, the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.
This item £7.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)[
Publisher’s price £12.50]
Weight without packaging: 375g.
No particular medieval emphasis. A series of essays looking at various ‘explorers, visionaries, and seekers compelled by a singular desire’. Includes accounts of Marco Polo, El Dorado, Paracelsus, Columbus, the Innocents’ Crusade, Magellan, Mary Kingsley (a Victorian naturalist), and Ibn Batuta.
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