Nancy Bell Bates. East of the Andes and West of Nowhere. A Naturalist's Wife in Colombia. Charles Scribner, 1947. No dj. Good cond. Cloth covers a little frayed and marked (badly on back cover) with Map on front cover. Binding sound. No markings. Text clean. Ill. with many plates, some full page, of ph. in b & w. Index. 237 pp. An account of a visit to, at that time, remote parts of South America. The author was the wife of Marston Bates, a well-known zoologist and writer on the environment. His work for the Rockefeller Foundation took him to central Colombia, living in Villavicencio. This is an account of the couple's time there. Villavicencio was a large town, but they spent much of the time in the wilds in the course of his research. The author was herself well-connected as her father was the botanist David Fairchild and her grandfather Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. This copy £29.99