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Title: The Magic Desert: The Romance of a Great Discovery
Description: New York, Chilean Nitrate of Soda Educational Bureau, 1928. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff yellow pictorial wrappers. 59pp. Frontispiece map, numerous illustrations. Very good. Slight edgewear. Probable sole printing. Unusual history of this fertilizer, beginning with a fictionalized account of the Araucanian Indian's discovery of it in the 16th century and ending with the modern gathering and refining factories for it. .

Keywords: Natural History


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