THE GREAT WHITE FLEET

AUTHOR - John H. Melville

PUBLICATION - Vantage Press 1976

CONDITION - Very good condition, very clean and tidy, small staining and foxing on white endpapers and top of page block. Otherwise clean and bright and binding tight. Dustwrapper very good, very slight bumping and rubbing top and bottom of spine.

PRICE - $80

DESCRIPTION - This book records the histories of the ships that made up the United Fruit Company's Great White Fleet. Although it chronicles the growth of the banana industry in the tropical regions of the Western Hemisphere, it is an important footnote to social history and a compendium of short sketches dealing with adventure on the seas.

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