Aldabra alone Tony Beamish

Aldabra alone

Author	Tony Beamish
Publisher	London: Allen & Unwin, 1970
Edition	1
Weight	740 gram
CF
Keywords	natuurbescherming, environment, Aldabra, Comores, schildpadden, tortoises, birds, conservation, islands, flamingoes
Booknumber	20890
Category's	Travel & Geography (Africa) Exact Sciences (Biology) Exact Sciences (Natural History) Exact Sciences (Zoology)
:Lge-8vo (16,5 x 24 cm). Pp. 222 + 24 plates. Hard cover, silver-lettered spine, pictorial dust-jacket. The Aldabra islands group is situated in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar and the Comoros group. The Aldabra coral atoll is a 70-mile soilless and waterless living natural history museum inhabited by a great number of rare birds and about 80.000 giant tortoises. With a foreword by Sir Julian Huxley, an appendix with a list of the (breeding) birds of Aldabra, a short bibliography and 24 splendid coloured plates of tortoises, birds &c. Very good copy, dust-jacket with two tiny tears. A splendid work about the need of conservation.
Prijs	� 18.00