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Book Title: History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland: with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of Chamouni : By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and By:
Number of Pages: 38 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Publication Year: 2017
Topic: General
Item Height: 0.1 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 4.8 Oz
Author: Mary W. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Shelley
Item Length: 10 in
Item Width: 8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
