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The Vanishing Jungle: Two Wildlife Expeditions to Pakistan. The Story of the World Wildlife Fund Expeditions to Pakistan
by Mountfort, Guy
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- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
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Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. Full brown cloth with gilt blind stamped illustration of a tiger on front cover. Black label and gilt lettering on spine. Jacket is not price-clipped but does have tape reinforcement to the back of the jacket at the top & bottom of spine and at the corners. The tape has yellowed causing darkening to the jacket visible fromt front of the jacket. One half inch closed tear to front panel. Overall EXCELLENT condition book in a VERY GOOD minus jacket. Guy Mountfort (December 4, 1905 - April 24, 2003) was an English ornithologist and conservationist. Born in London, Mountfort was the author of A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (1954), with illustrations by Roger Tory Peterson and distribution maps by Philip Hollom. In 1961 he created the World Wildlife Fund with Julian Huxley, Peter Scott and Max Nicholson. In 1972 he led the campaign to save the Bengal Tiger, persuading Indira Gandhi to create nine tiger reserves in India, with eight others in Nepal and Bangladesh. . First American Edition. Full Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Illustrated by Eric Hosking. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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- Ziern-Hanon Galleries
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- 013456
- Title
- The Vanishing Jungle: Two Wildlife Expeditions to Pakistan. The Story of the World Wildlife Fund Expeditions to Pakistan
- Author
- Mountfort, Guy
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Eric Hosking
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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