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THE ASTONISHING ELEPHANT
de Alexander, Shana
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679456600
- ISBN 13
- 9780679456605
- Librería
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 2000. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. When Shana Alexander, a staff writer at Life magazine, won the right to name her own assignments, her first choice was a week-by-week account of a zoo elephant's pregnancy, believed to be the first in the history of captive elephants. Finally, in 1962, after twenty-two months, the baby was born, and Alexander's story was proudly trumpeted on Life's cover. Ever since, between other projects, she has made writing and learning about elephants a special interest. InTHE ASTONISHING ELEPHANT, Shana Alexander tells a story filled with drama, humor, sorrow, greed, sex, science--and surprising human interest. Physiologically, elephants are unique--entirely different from all other mammals. Yet, since antiquity, observers have agreed that the elephant is the animal most akin to man. Today both species of elephant--Africans and Asians--stand on the brink of extinction. Hope is arising, however, from a new generation of young American scientists, many of them women. Female zoologists and biologists have led the field in new findings about elephant ecology, family and sexual patterns, and the animals' continual communication by ultrasound, inaudible to human ears. THE ASTONISHING ELEPHANT also reveals, for the first time, a hair-raising story of elephant "genocide": in the years between the Civil War and World War I, all male elephants in U.S. circuses were stealthily killed--shot, poisoned, drowned, and even hanged. The reason was musth, a periodic condition of mature males that renders them uncontrollable. So, gradually, only female elephants--now with masculine names--were put on parade, with no one the wiser. Most important, THE ASTONISHING ELEPHANT details a decade of heartbreaking trial and error and eventual triumph as scientists have tried to learn how to breed elephants via artificial insemination. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] NF38
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- Librería
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 6985
- Título
- THE ASTONISHING ELEPHANT
- Autor
- Alexander, Shana
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0679456600
- ISBN 13
- 9780679456605
- Editorial
- Random House, Incorporated
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2000
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- LCCN
- 99050038
- Palabras clave
- ELEPHANTS NATURE WILDLIFE Nature, Wildlife
- Product_type
- 2
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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