ISBN: 9780151054633 - Amazon (23 results)

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good Condition hard cover 381 pages 1st edition.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

1983. South America, Native Americans. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Very good boards with cloth spine, good but edge worn dust jacket 382p.

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Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Description: Map endpapers by A Karl and J Kemp. Dust jacket design by Bob Silverman. From the jacket blurb: ''Authors Kelly and London combine adventure with the most diligent and penetrating research ever attempted in an effort to anticipate the fate of the Amazon. Their story is told partly through the voices of the people who live and profit there and partly through their own testimony to land wars, gold rushes and indusial development unchecked by ecological research and only barely controlled by law.'' BINDNG/CONDITION: pale green boards with beige cloth at the spine; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. index. Map endpapers. 8vo (about 9.25 inches tall). 382 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Review slip and photo laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition/First Printing. first edition/first printing book is tight with no markings, mild soiling to page edges, dj has rubbing and minor soiling along with small tears and creasing along the edges.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing, stated. SIGNED. A Very Good copy. 8vo., 382 pp. Bound in 10 cloth paper over boards. SIGNED on the half title page by both authors. Some minor creasing on the spine's cloth. A Very Good copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (1983), 382pp, maps tp eps, rmndr mark, light shelfwear to cover, light foxing to top pg edges, slight edgewear to dj, contents clean & unmarked. Remainder.

Hardcover. Condition: USED Good. inscribed by the authors on the half title page.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1983. Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0151054630. 382 pages. hardcover. Photographs - Front cover: Kevin Horan, Picture Group, Inset: Mark London, Back cover: Mark London. Jacket design by Bob Silverman. keywords: Latin America Travel Amazon. DESCRIPTION - At 5,000 feet the forest looks as if moths had feasted on a dark green carpet. Breat chunks have been chewed. .' The Amazon! How shall we think about this giant and legendary riverland, this final frontier? Is it the 'green hell' that has defeated the greed of fortune hunters for centuries or the fragile ecosystem that scientists warn will soon become a desert as red, dry, and sterile as Mars? To the hordes now burning their way into the world's largest remaining rain forest, the Amazon is their dream-a verdant roof two and a half million square miles, covering mineral and agricultural resources so vast that its riches could rocket Brazil to the status of a superpower by the end of this century. Authors Kelly and London combine brazen adventure with the most diligent and penetrating research ever attempted in an effort to anticipate the fate of the Amazon. Their story is told partly through the voices of the people who live and profit there and partly through their own testimony to land wars, gold rushes, and industrial development unchecked by ecological research and only barely controlled by law. The interviews begin in Brazil's great cities -with government officials and bureaucrats in Brasilia, intellectuals in Rio, and wealthy São Paulo businessmen whose money speaks loud in a land where foreign debt is the largest in the world. Their self-assured pronouncements, made at a far remove from the jungle itself, are the Amazon's official face. As Kelly and London travel to the frontier and deep into the wilderness beyond, that face changes as often and as abruptly as a simple object in a kaleidoscope: paper plans for land distribution are mediated not by the courts but by the guns of hired killers; the more the government tries to 'save' the Indians, the more Indians die; financial incentives for huge ranches have resulted in deserts that stretch to the horizon. Even the official maps of the Amazon are wrong. Throughout this unforgettable portrait of an invaded wilderness runs an unanswerable question: How much is gone? In the end, the authors come to realize that the question itself Is wrong. More important for us to know is how fast the land is going. Overlapping and conflicting ambitions are eating up the jungle at an exponential rate. Time may be running out. And only time will tell if the slow work of the researcher and the patient efforts of the farmer can balance the hurried plans of the powerful to decide whether dreamers and doers will profit in the Amazon-or destroy it utterly. inventory #3918. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Pinting. Text/BRAND NEW. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/light nips, chips, small losses & rubs to edges. Brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to text edges. A portrait of the new frontier of the Amazon River Valley and the soldiers-of-fortune lured by promised riches. Narrative of two trips to the Amazon taken by journalist Brian Kelley and attorney Mark London. The first, sponsored by Sun-Times, and the second to gather more material to complete this book --- each trip spanning several months.…

Condition: Collectible; Very Good. SIGNED BY AUTHOR MARK LONDON. VG+ book & jacket. 1st printing. Inscribed.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xvi, 382pp, index, endpaper maps. Or green and beige cloth in pictorial jacket. Some edge wear to jacket with several very short tears. The authors combine adventure with research to attempt to anticipate the fate of the Amazon. The story is told partly through the voices of the people who live and profit there- and partly through their own testimony to land wars, gold rushes, and industrial development unchecked by ecological research and only barely controlled by law. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. xvi, 382pp. Owners embossing stamp on title page, else fine in very good or better dustwrapper with a few short tears on edges. Inscribed by authors on half title page. Account of the authors travels through the Amazon jungle.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No DJ. Ancien livre de bibliotheque. Manque la jaquette. L'extérieur est usé et abimé, l'intérieur est en très bon état, la reliure est solide et il n'y a pas de plis au dos. Il s'agit néanmoins d'un bon ouvrage de lecture ou de référence. Texte en anglais. Book.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Small open tear on bottom front panel. Small closed tears on spine crown and heel. Edgewear on panel corners.; Inscribed by Mark London on half title page.; Signed by Author. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Tape (4 strips) on boards (probably where DJ was once attached), edgewear, library stamps and envelope on FFEP map pictorial. No markings to text. Page foredges stamped and stained. Good reading copy. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Moderate surface and edge wear on DJ, some fraying rub marks at both ends of spine, back flap creased. Binding opens readily at pastedowns, embossed by previous owner on half title page, remainder mark on bottom. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.