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Title: The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of one Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Banda Oriental, in South America, as told by Himself
Description: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd. London, 1951. First Thus, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Hudson was born in Argentina & spent over thirty years there before moving to England in 1874 so, although this was written as a novel, the background is as authentic as an early travelogue & the appendix gives a brief history of the Banda Oriental. B/w. frontis. portrait of the author aged about twenty-five. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 366 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's gift inscription in ink to front end-paper. Gilt titles spine. light fading to bottom of spine. red cloth. Includes appendix. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Novel; South America; Uruguay; Travel & Places. Inventory No: 3754.

Keywords: BZDB227 Travel/South America/Banda Oriental/Uruguay/Novel/Montevideo/Guillermo Enrique Hudson Fiction; Novel; South America; Uruguay; Travel & Places. Unbranded W. H. Hudson The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of one Richard Lamb's Adventures in the Ba

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