WILDLIFE IN AMERICA : 1987 Revised & Updated Edition w/Lists & Drawing of Rare, Threatened & Extinct Species : The First History of Man's Effect on the Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals of the North American Continent by Matthiessen, Peter; (Richard H. Pough, Introduction) - 1987

New York, NY: Elisabeth Sidton Books/Viking, 1987. Revised & Updated 1993 Edition . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/Very Good. Bob Hines (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW. Bi-color, illustrated boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. Illustrated endpapers. First published 1959; this is the First Edition of the revised-and-updated Edition of 1987, to incorporate new developments. History of the extinction and endangerment of animal & bird species, consequent to human settlement throughout North American history. Cataloging extinctions, novelist, writer and environmentalist Peter Matthiessen (1927 -), who wrote this book in the late 1950s, documents the decline of bear and wolf, caracara and crane, salamander and chub in the face of Manifest Destiny and economic progress --- a conflict between man and nature that continues. 332 pgs in 12 chapters followed by Epilogue and appedices.