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KINO REPORTS TO HEADQUARTERS: Correspondence of Eusebio F. Kino, S. J. from New Spain with Rome. Original Spanish Text of Fourteen Unpublished Letters and Reports with English Translation and Notes.
Edition: First edition.
Rome, Italy: INSTITUTUM HISTORICUM SOCIETATIS JESU, 1954. Hardcover first edition - In addition to being a Jesuit missionary, Kino was a geographer, explorer, cartographer and astronomer. During the last 24 years of his life he worked in the Pimera Alta (modern-day Sonora in Mexico and southern Arizona in the United States) where he explored the region and worked with the Native American population, including primarily the Tohono O'Odham. He led an overland expedition to the Baja California Territory to prove that it was not an island but a peninsula. Index, 135 pp plus a supplement on glossy stock which includes black and white plates of the Kino's original documents plus a fold out map, complete.
Condition: Very near fine in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine.
Book ID: 85569More details Price: $45.00 -
THE WOMAN WHO ESCAPED FROM SHAME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this award-winning writer. "A story told by the mysterious and charismatic Morales, a young man on a spree in Baja, California, with his two friends and their women companions." A fusion of the real and surreal, of adventure and mystery, and an investigation into storytelling itself. Dust jacket praise by John Edgar Wideman who calls it "An original, haunting mix of all that's exciting in good fiction; imagination rules, creates things not seen before." 324 pp. ISBN: 0-394547152.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dustjacket (some tiny nicks at the ends of the spine).
Book ID: 87371More details Price: $19.50