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Author Brown, Leslie, 1917-1980.

Title Africa : a natural history / Leslie Brown ; photographs by Alan Root [and others] ; maps drawn by Kenneth Thompson.

Imprint New York : Random House, ©1965.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Baron  508.6 B813a 1965    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 299 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some folded color) ; 33 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series The continents we live on
Continents we live on.
Note "A Chanticleer Press edition."
Col. map on lining papers.
Includes index.
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.
Subject Natural history -- Africa -- Popular works.
Natural history -- Africa.
Natural history. (OCoLC)fst01034268
Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
Genre/Form Popular works. (OCoLC)fst01423846

 
    
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