Fever Famine and Gold; The Dramatic Story of the Adventures and Discoveries of the Andes-Amazon Expedition in the Uncharted Fastnesses of a Lost World in the Llanganatis Mountains
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xiv, [2], 3-257, [1] pp. Maroon cloth with black lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Price of $2.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontis photograph of the author, and several other black and white photographs of Erskine's adventures throughout. Subjects captured by the photographs include the Andes Mountains, a Ssabela tribal-person, (according to the book the only Ssabela person ever to have been photographed up to that time), the Ecuadorean jungle, and several lakes. A fascinating account of travel to Ecuador: according to the book Captain Loch was able to gather additional scientific knowledge of the land's topography from his expedition, and found several pre-Columbian gold mines that would have been used by the Incas. Near Fine / Near Very Good. Item #00008499
A Near Fine book with a small Hampel's Bookshop Milwaukee bookstore label on the front pastedown. Dust jacket is Near Very Good with traces of rubbing and wear, and a small closed tear to the bottom of the rear panel.
Price: $150.00