Animal Twilight Tapa dura - 1967

1967. OUT-OF-PRINT. Hard Cover. Good/Poor.

Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, 1967. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Collectible - Very Good/Good. Text/BRAND NEW, showing trace discoloration. Yellow linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; intact w/edge wear and rubs to surfaces & all leading edges. Maps to endpapers. Check mark to fEP. A natural history of wildlife, fauna and flora, of Africa from Roman times to the present. Studied examination of travelogues, journals of hunters and sportsman, records of zoos points to the need of conservation post haste before Africa's the natural, living ecology becomes irrepairable. 10 chapters: I, The Impact of Man; II, Traditional African Hunting Methods; III, The Changing Scene; IV, Firearms & Human Settlement; V, Behavior & Migration; VI, Reactions of Big Game to Man; VII, Pachyderms; VIII, Carnivores; IX, Ruminants & Reptiles; and, X, Game Conservation, followed by appendices. Fine copy in lesser dust jacket.