Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor
by Johanson, Donald; Shreeve, James
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0688064922
- ISBN 13
- 9780688064921
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Fine Condition. 16 color plates and in-text black-and-white photographs. Very clean, unmarked, tight and solid volume, sewn binding. Endpapers with browntone illustrations: The Olduvai lakeshore 1.8 mmillion years ago, as re-created by artist Jay Matternes. Lucy's Child is the story of a discovery, in July 1986. Donald Johanson forced a major reinterpretation of the early stages of human evolution by finding the famous Lucy skeleton. Johanson and Shreeve let the reader see the anxiety, the exhilaration, and even the grubby politics behind this new discovery in Olduvai Gorge. An authoratative account of what we know and what we wish we knew about our origins. 318 pages. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. William Morrow & Co Publishers, New York, 1989.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017245
- Title
- Lucy's Child: The Discovery of a Human Ancestor
- Author
- Johanson, Donald; Shreeve, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0688064922
- ISBN 13
- 9780688064921
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- ANTHROPOLOGISTS; FOSSILS; HOMINIDS; AUSTRALOPITHECINES; SCIENCE; FOSSIL MAN; EAST AFRICA;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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