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The nature of life : earth, plants, animals, man and their effect on each other / Lorus and Margery Milne ; photographs by Emil Javorsky [and others].
LIBRA - Rare QH45.2 .M55 Frost copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milne, Lorus Johnson, 1910-1987.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history.
- Ecology.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 316 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 46 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
- Manufacture:
- Milan : Manufactured by Amilcare Pizzi S.p.A.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown Publishers, Inc., [1972]
- Contents:
- The dynamic earth and its mobile life
- The long evolution of the world and its life
- Life in the old-world tropics
- Life on all sides of the North Pole
- Life in the middle latitudes across Eurasia
- Life in the middle latitudes across North America
- Australia and New Guinea
- New Zealand and the island of the broad Pacific
- Islands in special isolation
- Life between the continents
- in the open sea
- Life along the sea coasts and sea floors
- The life of brackish and fresh waters
- The spread of the culture primate.
- Notes:
- "A Chanticleer Press edition."
- "Planned, prepared and produced by Chanticleer Press, New York."--T.p. verso.
- Text printed in double columns.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 428436635
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