Published by Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1015325394 ISBN 13: 9781015325395
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014179785 ISBN 13: 9781014179784
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014454441 ISBN 13: 9781014454447
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013539435 ISBN 13: 9781013539435
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
Published by Legare Street Press 2021-09-09, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014454441 ISBN 13: 9781014454447
Seller: Chiron Media, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: New.
Published by Oliver & Boyd, 1832., Edinburgh:, 1832
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Switzerland
Second edition, revised. Small 8vo. 503 pp. 13 engravings by Branston including additional half-title-page vignette and 3 maps, one being a folding map frontis. of Africa (linen backed), and two additional maps showing the routes for Park (facing p.114) and Denham and Clapperton (facing p.191); very minute tiny marginal bump btw. pp. 448-476. Original gilt and blind- half black calf over marbled boards); extremities a bit worn. Ink inscribed title verso, bookplate of Edmund Westby, and rubber ink stamped J. [John] Kelly (binder's mark) (1837-1861). Signature on verso of title of Merl La Voy (1885âÂÂ"1953). Very good. For binder, see: Maurice Packer, Bookbinders of Victorian London, p. 84. Merl La Voy (1885âÂÂ"1953) was a cinematographer. "Merl La Voy was an American pioneer documentary filmmaker, photographer and world traveler. He was probably best remembered by 1920s and 30s movie goers for his South Seas Islands documentaries and as a cameraman for Pathe News. Not long after purchasing his first movie camera, La Voy traveled to Europe to cover the First World War. His film, Heroic France (1917), brought the horrors of war home to American film audiences. After the war he worked for a period of time for the International Red Cross. Later while covering an uprising in China, his wit and quick thinking saved him from being executed by a firing squad after being mistaken for a Russian mercenary. For much of his life, La Voy and his camera lens traveled the four corners of the world, earning him the title bestowed upon him by the press, "The Modern Marco Polo". In 1932 La Voy, who had been a member of the 1912 Parker-Browne Expedition that nearly conquered Mount McKinley, and Andrew Taylor, a well-known Alaskan photographer, led a group that recovered the frozen remains of scientist Theodore G. Koven from the mouth of the Muldrow Glacier on Mount McKinley. Koven, a member of the Carpe Mount McKinley Expedition, had perished the previous year after he and the expedition's leader, Allen Carpe, fell into a crevasse. La Voy's group discovered that Koven had survived the fall and had managed to crawl out of the crevasse, only to eventually freeze to death. Allen Carpe had apparently fallen much deeper into the abyss, for his body was never found. Merl La Voy died in Johannesburg, South Africa on 6 December, 1953." - IMDb.