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This classic history of the rare, threatened, and extinct animals of North America is a dramatic chronicle of man's role in the disappearance of great and small species of our land. "Should be the number one source volume for everyone who embraces the philosophy of conservation."--Roger Tory Peterson. Illustrations throughout.
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Peter Matthiessen, the author of the classic The Snow Leopard, here takes a long view of the troubled relationship between Americans and animals. Cataloging extinctions right and left, Matthiessen, who wrote this book in the late 1950s well before the rise of the present environmental movement, documents the decline of bear and wolf, caracara and crane, salamander and chub in the face of Manifest Destiny and economic progress. It's a sad tale, especially because what Matthiessen wrote of the last wild animals 40 years ago remains true today: "Such protection as is extended them too rarely includes the natural habitats they require, and their remnants skulk in a lean and shrinking wilderness." This is an essential book for environmentalists.
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These dual Matthiessens, which launch the publisher's new "Nature Classics" line, profile the relationship between humans and nature in East Africa (The Tree, LJ 12/1/72) and in the United States (Wildlife, LJ 1/15/60). The latter volume has been expanded and updated for this edition.
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- PublisherThe Viking Press
- Publication date1964
- ISBN 10 0670001481
- ISBN 13 9780670001484
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Bob Hines (illustrator). Reprint. introduction by Richard H. Pough, acknowledgements, two appendices, reference notes, bibliography and index. At the beginning of the text. There is a double page map showing The North American Continent, showing some key localities referred to in the text. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white drawings by Bob Hines. Illustrated card cover with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "This first comprehensive history of American wildlife dramatically chronicles the fate of the original creatures of this continent, from the time of the white man's arrival in the new world to the present. Here is the consecutive tale of the animals that banished, of those that became so rare that tardy protection barely save them from extinction, and of the efforts of conservationists today to preserve our living heritage." -- from the rear panel blurb. The book was first published in 1959. Creasing to the book corners and there is a crease that runs the full length of the front panel. Rubbing of the book edges and panels with light age toning to the textblock edges and foxing. Remainder stamp to the front textblock edge. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 304 pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Bob Hines. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Animals & Birds; United States; Environment & Ecology. ISBN: 0670001481. ISBN/EAN: 9780670001484. Inventory No: 0117905. Seller Inventory # 0117905
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