The cloud garden
2003, First Edition. London : Bantam. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #227064
ISBN: 0593050797
Physical description; 323 p.: maps; 24 cm. Summary; An almost impregnable strip of jungle between North and South America, the Darien Gap has been ravaged by civil wars, drug trafficking and guerrilla groups. Enthusiastic botanist Tom Hart Dyke, and merchant banker and explorer Paul Winder set off in search of orchids and adventure. Biography; Tom Hart Dyke is a botanist whose wild enthusiasm for plants is set to explode onto a television screen near you at any moment. Paul Winder, when he isn't in the jungle or up a mountain, works in the City of London as a banker. Subjects; Dyke, Tom Hart - Journeys - Darien (Panama and Colombia). Winder, Paul - Journeys - Darien (Panama and Colombia). Plant collectors. Orchidaceae (K). Panama. Colombia. True stories of endurance & survival; Travel writing. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. Genre; Illustrated.
Price: €8.95