Isbn: 9780684159768 - travels. (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Charles Scribners Sons, New York [Published Date: 1979]. Hardcover, 108 pp. Text in English. First printing, (with full number line). Very good in very good dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Previous owner's note of date and location of purchase in ink opposite title page. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing and aging to jacket as well. NOT price clipped Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Lovely illustrations by Stephen Lee. [From front jacket flap] Carl von Linne (Linnaeus) was one of the world's great naturalists. While his massive labors on the classification of plants are universally known, and indeed still form the basis for all plant and animal taxonomy today, his writings are less known, because of a dearth of translation.In this book, extracts from three major expeditions that he undertook through his native Sweden have been illustrated and presented in an attractive form for the general reader. His first expedition, the Lapland journey, was made when Linnaeus was just twenty-five years old. In spring, alone and on horseback he set out for the harshness and beauty of his northern land. Botany was only one of his interests, and his writing is full of observations on other inhabitants of the living world, including the Lapps, whose strange customs he details. Nine years later he went to Oland and Gotland. This time, with better organization and a group of students for company, he braved the treacherous seas to discover the profusion of rare plants that thrived on these islands in remarkable contrast to the poverty of the islanders. In this secluded plant paradise he found much of interest, including dye plants and plants of medicinal value. Linnaeus's writing is in the form of journals, and the freshness of his observations on the beauty of the flower and animal life and the landscape of Sweden have been captured in the strikingly fine, accurate illustrations to this book. …

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Clean tight copy with nice dust jacket. Stephen Lee (illustrator).

Zustand: Used: Like New. Near fine book and jacket.

Hardcover. Edited by David Black. First printing thus. About fine in like dust jacket. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Stephen Lee (illustrator).

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