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Color photographs depict the peregrine falcon in all its grace and beauty, and text describes how the bird has fared against man and pesticides, its biggest enemies
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"On the wings of her two magnificent books about grizzly bears and wolves, the Canadian naturalist Candace Savage presents Peregrine Falcons with her usual solid science writing and poignant, powerful photos. The resurrection of this predator by captive breeding and careful release after the DDT crisis nearly wiped out the species stands as one of the great triumphs of conservation."
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-- The Chicago Tribune
"Striking...[the] photos and detailed text provide vivid insight into these fascinating raptors."
-- San Francisco Chronicle
"[Candace Savage] relates man's long, turbulent relationship with the peregrine, a love-hate relationship that nearly spelled extinction of the bird."
-- Spokane Review
0 full color photographs by such well-known nature photographs as Galen Rowell and Art Wolfe, Peregrine Falcons offers a stunning photographic tribute to the grace and beauty of this fierce and ecologically threatened bird of prey.
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- PublisherRobert Hale
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0709049730
- ISBN 13 9780709049739
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages176
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First Edition. two 5mm tears to jacket at top front corner joint. small dent with 5mm tear on front cover. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Seller Inventory # 904509
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1992. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Large format. Green boards, gilt title to spine. Foreword by Adrian Forsyth. Colour photos. Bookplate to front pastedown. From the personal library of Bryan L. Sage, distinguished naturalist and author. Wrapper a little edge-creased with some foxing to verso. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!. Seller Inventory # 2127744
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First UK edition-first printing. Near fine condition.Robert Hale,1992.First UK edition-first printing.Large format green hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,two small nicks on the cover) with Dj(a couple of nicks,scratches and crease on the Dj cover),both in near fine condition.Illustrated with 100 full-colour photographs.Nice and clean pages as new with two pencil marks impressions on the edges of the first page of the book,small crease and nick on the edges of the pages.Nice and clean book with light shelf wear on the Dj cover.149pp including Foreword by Andrian Forsyth,references,index.A collectable first edition.Heavy(approx 1.2 Kg) and oversized book. This is another paragraph Synopsis: The photographs in this book depict the peregrine falcon in all its grace and beauty. Peregrines are among the most widely distributed of birds, at home on six continents. Never plentiful, they are now among the rarest of living creatures. The cause of their decline, in the 1950s and 1960s, was the contamination of their food chain by pesticides, primarily DDT. As author Candace Savage warns, DDT and other persistent pesticides, long banned in developed countries, are still manufactured in chemical plants and exported to the Third World, while chemical compounds currently used in Western countries may be almost as deadly to the birds. Candace Savage is the author of Wolves and Grizzly Bears. Seller Inventory # 1843
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