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2 hardcover vintage river travel books by Robert Gibbings, both illustrated by teh author.
Coming Down the Seine - HB, 1st Edition, Dent & Sons 1953. NO dustjacket.
In this book Robert Gibbings follows the Seine, starting at its source near Dijon on its course as it develops from a tranquil stream into the mighty waterway that links Rouen to the sea. The journey takes different forms: on foot, in a tiny boat, and on a boat used for transporting books.
Coming Down the Wye - 1945 - a War Economy Edition, first published 1942 This Edition is a Travel Book Club/ Foyle's Edition, NO dustjacket , in green cloth, speckled heavily to one corner.
"The fruit of two years close study, observation, and journeying, during many months of which, in high summer and bleak mid-winter, the author lived alone (but for a pony) in a semi-derelict mountain cottage at the source of the Wye."
