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Silent Thunder: The Hidden Voice of Elephants
by Payne, Katy
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 029784265X
- ISBN 13
- 9780297842651
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: WEIDENFELD / NICOLSON, 1998. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped jacket, SIGNED by the author. Clean brown cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. two small bumps, one to edge and one to corner tip. No fraying or wear-through. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Inscribed and signed on half-title page: "Especially for Fran with warm affection from Katy - December 2004." Clean endpapers, clean pages; no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with maps. 288 pages. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped, unchipped, no tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
Synopsis
Katy Payne is an acoustic biologist whose study of humpback whale songs received national attention. A frequent lecturer on conservation and on animal behavior and communications, she is currently a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University's Bioacoustic Research Program. She lives in Ithaca, New York, and is the mother of four children.
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31627
- Title
- Silent Thunder: The Hidden Voice of Elephants
- Author
- Payne, Katy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 029784265X
- ISBN 13
- 9780297842651
- Publisher
- WEIDENFELD / NICOLSON
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- ELEPHANTS, KATY PAYNE, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, ANIMALS, ELEPHANT COMMUNICATION, ANIMAL COMMUNICATION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals; SIGNED Editions; Nature;
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- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- First Edition
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