Island of the Fisherwomen Fosco Maraini hc

Island of the Fisherwomen Fosco Maraini publication information

Island of the Fisherwomen

By Fosco Maraini

$100.00

First American edition 1962.

Book on the pearl-divers of Japan by ethnologist Fosco Maraini, son of Italian sculptor Antonio Maraini and Anglo-Polish novelist Yoi Pawlowska.

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