London: Collins, 1977. 1st Edition. Brown Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. N/a. 160pp. 1977. First edition. 8vo. A very good, clean, tight copy in like jacket. Numerous line drawings throughout illustrate the text. Gilt embossed lettering to the spine. A former owner's ink name and date to the head of the front endpaper. A light bump to the tail of the spine and to the upper front board corner. Some light spotting to the upper fore-edge. The jacket has been price-clipped - there is some light rubbing to both the head and tail of the spine of the jacket; it also has several closed nicks. A very good, clean, tight first edition copy.

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'On this speck of volcanic soil in the middle of a vast sea, a complete, unique and peaceful world was created slowly and carefully. It waited there for hundreds of thousands of years for an annihilating invasion of voracious animals for which it was totally unprepared, a cohort of rapacious beasts led by the worst predator in the world, Homo sapiens. In an incredibly short space of time, a number of unique species had vanished...' Mauritius, the green and mountainous island in the Indian Ocean, was once the home of the ill-fated dodo, and by the 1970s it still had many unique but endangered species, hanging onto their existence by their fingernails.When Gerald Durrell went to rescue some of these creatures from extinction, he experienced danger and discomfort, but enjoyed the adventures greatly. He spent nights in the jungle looking for bats and pink pigeons, and climbed near-vertical rock faces to find Telfair's skinks and Gunther's geckos, spending his spare time exploring the enchanted worlds of the coral reefs with their many species of multicoloured fish. By the end of his trip, he had an extraordinary collection of animals to take to his Jersey sanctuary from where the progeny could, in time, be restored to Mauritius.

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Bookseller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 237285
Title: Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons
Author: Durrell, Gerald
Illustrator: N/a
Format/Binding: Brown Boards
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 000211576X
ISBN 13: 9780002115766
Publisher: Collins
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1977
Size: 8vo - over 7Â¾"
Keywords: NATURAL HISTORY_MASCARENE ISLANDS RARE ANIMALS
X weight: 12 oz

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