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He explains his methods of cultivation
while others would regularly turn up in long-running franchises and earn firm fan bases or become the mascots of companies
talking to fruit and vegetable growers and the agricultural research scientists who helped solve their problems
After this the ornithological flood gates open wide and from Australia to the Barbary Coast
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne wood work Old Filth QCFrom the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne Ward, Lock & Co., c1920, black and white illustrated frontispiece, embossed covers, hardcover Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, age toned pages, blue small scribbles to front endpapers (see photographs) Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little