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Africa, a natural history / Leslie Brown ; photographs by Alan Root [and others] ; maps drawn by Kenneth Thompson.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Leslie, 1917-1980.
- Series:
- Continents we live on
- The continents we live on
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history--Africa--Popular works.
- Natural history.
- Africa.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 299 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some folded color) ; 33 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [1965]
- Contents:
- Link to southern Europe
- Great land of thirst
- A volcanic tableland
- The endless steppe
- Land of tooth and claw
- Bush fires and bishop birds
- The great swamplands
- Apes, pygmies and peacocks
- An animal paradise
- Elephants, baobabs and rocks
- The great southern savannas
- Big game, kopjes, and salt pans
- Red sands, gemsbok and dune beetles
- A ruined paradise
- Seabirds and flowering coasts
- Volcanoes, flamingos and great lakes
- Glaciers and giant plants
- Manatees, coral reefs and lemurs.
- Notes:
- "A Chanticleer Press edition."
- Col. map on lining papers.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Brown, Leslie, 1917-1980. Africa, a natural history.
- OCLC:
- 1175542
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