Twilight of the Giants
by Walker, Clive (text and photographs)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0620062215
- ISBN 13
- 9780620062213
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Johannesburg: Sable Publishers, ca 1982) 0620062215. Large 4to; original grey cloth, lettered in silver gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 208; profusely illustrated, with photographs in colour and monochrome. Trace of sunning to dustwrapper's upper panel adjacent to spine; a little foxing to edges and outermost leaves. Very good condition. "Most recent extinctions can be attributed, either directly or indirectly, to man; more specifically to man's demographic and technological expansion. ... If mankind continues to allow whole species to perish, when does their peril also become ours? In South Africa we have witnessed the extinction of the Quagga, the Bluebuck, the Cape Lion and any number of plant species. Right now there are certain species whose survival is threatened; the Black Rhino, the Cheetah, the elephants of Kaokoveld and Knysna, the Cape Vulture and the floral kingdom of the south western Cape." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11265
- Title
- Twilight of the Giants
- Author
- Walker, Clive (text and photographs)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0620062215
- ISBN 13
- 9780620062213
- Publisher
- (Johannesburg: Sable Publishers, ca 1982) 0620062215
- Place of Publication
- South Africa
- This edition first published
- 1984-05
- Keywords
- Wildlife. Extinctions. Ecology. African wilderness. Wildlife photography Natural History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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