CHILE: ESSENCE AND EVOLUTION.

Quarto, 10-3/4 inches high by 8-5/8 inches wide. Color pictorial boards in the original dust wrapper. The top edges of the dust jacket are creased and chipped and there is dampstaining to the top and bottom edges of the jacket. 207 pages, profusely illustrated in color throughout. Near fine in a good dust wrapper. First edition. SCARCE."This book is a synthesis of the natural, historical, sociological, cultural, economic and artistic phenomena of Chile. Part I, The Country and its Nature, describes the Chilean territory and its main morphological features. Part II, The Course of Man, studies the first evidence of human existence as an archaeological theme. The written history of Chile begins with the first contact between native Chileans and Spaniards. Two expeditions came to discover and conquer Chile before Pedro de Valdivia undertook the final conquest." [Excerpted from the dust wrapper blurb]. Dust jacket present. First Edition.

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Publisher: Santiago, Chile: Institute of Regional Studies of the University of Chile, 1982.

Year: 1982.

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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