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THE ANT MEN: A Science Fantasy Novel.
by North, Eric (pseudonym for Bernard C. Chronin.)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good condition overall in red cloth - some wear to the covers, but binding is sturdy, contents clean, no dust jacket. /red cloth - some wear to the covers, but binding is sturdy, contents clean, no
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About This Item
Philadelphia:: The John C. Winston Company,, (1955). Hardcover first edition -. Good condition overall in red cloth - some wear to the covers, but binding is sturdy, contents clean, no dust jacket. . First edition. Set in Australia. A title in the classic Winston series of juvenile science fiction, written by some of those who would go on to be among the most respected writers in the genre, and by those with a knowledge of and background in science. Endpaper design by Alex Schomburg. Cecile Matschat and Carl Carmer, editors.
Synopsis
"There's a feeling about this desert which frankly suggests...impossible things. That's the only way I can put it." The feeling that Professor Silas Orcutt, an American geologist, refers to early in this story, is one that every reader of this rugged and thrilling science fiction novel will share with him after the very first page. The professor, head of a party of five studying geological formations in the Central Australian desert, thought back on the nightmare of shifting sand and crackling electrical charges that had wrecked the truck in which his party was traveling. He thought, too, of the skeleton of a freshly killed crocodile - found hundreds of miles from the nearest river - and the stench of formic acid that remained around its picked-clean bones. The professor's intrepid little group was prepared to find fossils in the Australian rock strata - but not the living kind that shocked them into believing the impossible of the burnt-out lands of the continent down under. Trapped in a desert valley under the pitiless sun, the five found themselves face to face with six-foot-tall ants and deadly giant mantises: survivors from before the dawn of history. Locked in a harrowing war for survival, these deadly creatures had little use for the puny men who found themselves in the midst of an insect war! How Professor Orcutt was captured by ants with curiously manlike characteristics; how the members of his party found him and investigated the huge underground ant city; how they helped defend the ant men's ghostly underground caverns make this a completely gripping novel capped with a taut and electrifying climax sure to please readers of every age.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68789
- Title
- THE ANT MEN: A Science Fantasy Novel.
- Author
- North, Eric (pseudonym for Bernard C. Chronin.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Good condition overall in red cloth - some wear to the covers, but binding is sturdy, contents clean, no dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- red cloth - some wear to the covers, but binding is sturdy, contents clean, no
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The John C. Winston Company,
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia:
- Date Published
- (1955)
- Keywords
- Australia,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction and Fantasy;
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