The Peking Man is Missing
by Taschdjian, Claire
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
Item Price
£11.88£10.69
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About This Item
NY: Harper & Row, 1977. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Near Fine. 5.75"x 8.5" 250 pgs. Red boards. DJ #1397 designed by Roy Kuhlman. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), unmarked. Some discoloration of dj spine w/faint water stain. Secure ship w/track #. In the 1920s, on a hill near Peking (now Beijing), a team of scientists discovered a huge cache of human bones, some more than half a million years old. Collectively dubbed ?Peking Man,? they were one of the most important finds in the history of paleontology. And in 1941, in the chaos of World War II they disappeared. No one knows what happened, but there are plenty of theories, many with political implications. Claire Taschdjian's speculation as to what might have become of the priceless fossils could represent just another theory, but for one intriguing fact: Claire Taschdjian was one of the last people in the world known to have seen Peking Man. (With newly-commissioned material on the true story of the Peking Man.) Source: Publisher.
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- Seller
- Blacks Bookshop (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 15147
- Title
- The Peking Man is Missing
- Author
- Taschdjian, Claire
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- BCE/BOMC
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1977
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