Buy this book on-line HILLABY, JOHN: : HILLABY'S WORLD: ADVENTURES ACROSS THREE CONTINENTSLONDON.SINCLAIR-STEVENSON,1992. ISBN 1856191664.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Extracts,with original publisher's permission,taken from Hillaby's previously published titles,being revised and rewritten by Hillaby,
for this volume particularly.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj.Bright,crisp,
clean,glossy laminated,scenic colour
photographic front panel and author's colour portrait photographic rear panel with black ink lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and
corners - no nicks or tears present.
Both head+foot of dw/djs' spine/
backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing - some light lettering indentations to approx centre of front panel - noticeable only under bright light,some other inevitable but unobtrusive scoring+
indentations to either panel of dw/dj.Described hard but fairly and honestly - nowhere as bad as it reads! Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,
solid and sound - near pristine - no
dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners possibly unread? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,
publisher's original,plain dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,
stamped gilt letters to spine/
backstrip and immaculate plain white
eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,9-238pp [paginated] includes 7 chapters,profuse b/w+colour photographs throughout,
acknowledgements and picture credits
and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,poetry extract page,colour scenic photographic frntis,contents list/
table,and 2pp blanks at rear.
John Hillaby,described as
'Britain's most respected authority on walking' (The Times),has already walked the equivalent of four times round the equatorial girth of the world. 'Hillaby's World' offers a selection of insights into the most exotic and dramatic of his walking adventures,including much that he has never written about before.
We follow him along the Congo River,up the Mountains of the Moon and through the pygmy country of the
dark Ituri.We learn of his encounter
with the Yam-Yams,who,until recently,were famous for their cannabilism.On his journey through Zaire,with a French aristocrat as his guide,he travelled with four Belgian scientists,who were looking in the lakes for a chemical which they hoped might cure all rheumatoid
disease.In the northern territories of Canada,just above and below the Arctic Circle,he recorded the calls of wolves who were shepherding herds
of caribou,and watched the Red Men tribe,the Chipewyans,drive the animals over the cliffs.
Here,there are also vivid descriptions of Hillaby's walks through Britain,including his famous
trip from Land's End to John O'Groats,and tales of his beloved home county,Yorkshire.
This is a varied and wonderful book,lavishly illustrated,and written in the vivid,informative and entertaining prose for which John Hillaby is so well known.
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