Mouthful Petals by Wendy Allan Scarfe (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 214 pages. Ex-library with typical marks, light discoloring; very good otherwise. Endpapers have a map of Sokhoedeora, India. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Countries & Travel; Inventory No: 134636.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-Library hardcover no dj (orange boards) with all the usual markings, attachments, and library wear. Text block clean and unmarked. Tight binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Publisher: Taplinger Publishing Co., Date of Publication: 1967, Binding: hardcover, Condition: Very Good, Description: Name plate inside front cover, DJ corner clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Published. Dust jacket has rub marks, uneven fading, scuffs and some soils; a nice copy of book with minor wear. 213 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. Very Good+ hardcover/Very Good edgeworn dust jacket (in mylar). Taplinger Publishing Co., 1967. First U.S. Edition. Map endpapers; 22 b\w photos; statistics, ix + 214 pages. Australian volunteer teachers spend 3 years in rural Bihar, India, in the village of Sokhodeora, near his ashram, Sarvodaya, at the invitation of Jayaprakash Narayan. 1960S Bihar. A lesson in how to help. Narrated by Allan.

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: VG/NO DUSTJACKET. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. New York, NY: Taplinger Publishing Company. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. (1967). First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 214 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, chipped, tears, pages lightly toned .

Unknown Binding. Condition: Very Good. Paperback - FAST Despatch by First Class Royal Mail.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket (Biography, India, Technology).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover. 214 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Heinemann, London, 1967. First Edition. *** CONDITION: Good book with Good dust jacket . Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket has substantial rubbing. Edges of dust jacket have superficial wear and minor chips and/or tears. Dust jacket is unclipped. Edges of pages are significantly foxed. Pages are lightly tanned. Previous owner's name in ink. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Indigenous Cultures; Inventory No: 17030027.

Paperback. Condition: New. 2nd edition. Language: English. Brand new Book. A Mouthful of Petals is a nonfiction account of three years working in an Indian village in the early 1960s. Previously published, it became a minor classic among good samaritans, particularly in Britain, and was reviewed by The Times, New Statesman and such like.At the invitation of India's venerated political leader and activist Jayaprakash Narayan, Wendy and Allan Scarfe, two dedicated but far from solemn young Australian teachers, travelled to the remote village of Sokhodeora in Bihar in 1960. They had been asked to take charge of the educational activities of his ashram, but over the three years they lived there, their activities extended far beyond that.This humane and important book recounts their efforts in helping local people counter the misery, poverty and ignorance that afflicted so much of the region. By the time they left, the Scarfes had succeeded in teaching both children and adults much that would help them to lead better and fuller lives. And they left behind, for the young at least, something to hope and work for.This new edition of A Mouthful Of Petals includes an account of Wendy Scarfe's return trip to Sokhodeora during a famine in the late 1960s, and how those who live in Bihar state fare in the early twenty-first century.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good in Mylar Sleeve. 1st Printing of 1st Edition. A straight unmarked book in a bright complete dust jacket. Includes an original newspaper clipping at time of release.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 213 pages. The dust jacket is a bit worn, with heavy rubbing, scuffing, and a clipped inside flap. The page edges are lightly tanned. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Ex Library.

Hard Back. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good hardback copy in good dustjacket. x, 214pp, b/w plates.