KINGSTON, W.H.G. On The Banks Of The Amazon; or, A Boy's Journal of his Adventures in the Tropical Wilds of South America. London: T. Nelson and Sons. 1873.
8vo. Original blue pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, patterened endpapers; pp. 512, frontispiece, full and half page wood-engraved illustrations (all paginated); cloth lightly rubbed; light browning to endpapers, ownership inscription to title-page.
Early edition. Although a ripping yarn for boys, this book, first published in 1872, contains rather good natural history illustrations. The children's author William Henry Giles Kingston (1814–1880), had travelled widely, which enabled him to merge first-hand experience of exotic places with adventure stories.
SKU: 2118442
KINGSTON, W.H.G. On The Banks Of The Amazon; or, A Boy's Journal of his Adventures in the Tropical Wilds of South America. London: T. Nelson and Sons. 1873.
8vo. Original blue pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, patterened endpapers; pp. 512, frontispiece, full and half page wood-engraved illustrations (all paginated); cloth lightly rubbed; light browning to endpapers, ownership inscription to title-page.
Early edition. Although a ripping yarn for boys, this book, first published in 1872, contains rather good natural history illustrations. The children's author William Henry Giles Kingston (1814–1880), had travelled widely, which enabled him to merge first-hand experience of exotic places with adventure stories.
SKU: 2118442
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