Marrin's Bookshop

Synopsis

(the islands series).

Item Description

8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. 215 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper, which has minor edge wear. Top edge blue. Slight sunning of head of spine, but otherwise very good copy. Illustrated by 16 pages of black and white plates and by 3 maps in text. History and survey of the Spanish Atlantic island of Fuerteventura, the second largest of the Canary Islands. Includes bibliography. John Mercer (1934-82), born in Las Palmas, was an archaeologist, who worked on the Scottish island of Jura.