274pp, with A central black and white photographic plates. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Lightly bumped spine ends. Bottom edges of boards sun faded. Text block edges starting to fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, chipping to edges.Â
From Leningrad and Moscow to Irkutsk and Khavarovsk and then to the ruins of Yucatan, Rio's carnival and safari in Botswana, Chase comments pungently and with delicious irreverence on things such as Russian toilets and wild animals in Africa.Â
