Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition 1st printing, Near Fine book with slight slant and slight splay to front board, in a Near Fine jacket with light edge wear and light overwrite impressions back panel. A beautiful book about little-known places and Baikal. Baikal is the world's oldest and deepest lake, containing 1/5 of the fresh water on earth.
Published by Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, CA, 1992
ISBN 10: 0871565846 ISBN 13: 9780871565846
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 89 pages. Features a foreword by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, an essay by Peter Matthiessen and an afterword by David Brower. Includes numerous color photographs by Boyd Norton. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear.
Published by Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1992
ISBN 10: 0871563584 ISBN 13: 9780871563583
Seller: Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books), La Grande, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Signed by Norton, Yevtushenko, and Brower--every contributor listed on the title page has signed it but Matthiessen. Uncommon as such (Matthiessen's signature alone in this volume is more prevalent).Describes in word and photograph the 1990 journey of Matthiessen, Paul Winter, and a group of Russian environmentalists who traveled around Baikal, the world's oldest and deepest lake, containing one-fifth of the planet's fresh water andincreasingly threatened. A fine book in a fine price-clipped jacket.