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Galapagos : the flow of wildness.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porter, Eliot, 1901-1990, photographer, author.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891, author.
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882, author.
- Series:
- Sierra Club exhibit format series ; 19-20.
- Sierra Club exhibit format series ; 19-20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history--Galapagos Islands--Pictorial works.
- Natural history.
- Galapagos Islands--Pictorial works.
- Galapagos Islands.
- Galapagos Islands--Description and travel.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes (170 ; 186 pages) : color illustrations, map ; 36 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Sierra Club, [1968]
- Contents:
- 1. Discovery / photographs by Eliot Porter ; introduction by Loren Eiseley, with selections from Herman Melville, Charles Darwin, J.R. Slevin, William Beebe, and others ; edited by Kenneth Brower ; foreword by David Brower
- 2. Prospect / photographs by Eliot Porter ; introduction by J.P. Milton ; text by Eliot Porter and Kenneth Brower ; edited, with a foreword, by Kenneth Brower.
- Notes:
- "Publisher's note: This book is set in Centaur and Arrighi by Mackenzie & Harris, Inc., San Francisco, with assistance from Sun Engraving , 6-10 Kirby Street, London...The book is lithographed on Star Astralux by Garrod & Llofthouse Ltd., London, and double-spread collated and bound in Winterbottom's Art Canvas by Webb Son and Co. Ltd., London. The design is by David Brower"--verso of title page.
- Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, page 42; volume 2, page 36).
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Rare copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- Penn Libraries Rare copy has dust jackets for each volume; and both are housed in a slipcase.
- OCLC:
- 302409
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