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Farley Mowat The Desperate People Boston Little Brown & Co. 1959 Stated First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Non Fiction 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall w/woodcuts By: Rosemary Kilbourn ex library. There are tape marks on the top and bottom edges of the boards. The book is otherwise clean and tight, inside and out. The dust jacket is in a new mylar cover, it is not faded, clipped, or torn. The endpapers are maps relative to the book. 305 pages. Appendix. In June of 1947 the author stepped out of a twin-engined plane and stood somewhere in the immense plain of Northern Canada. He was looking for an Eskimo people who call themselve the Ihalmint, the People of the Little Hills. In the next two years the author became friends with the Ihalmint, the forty-nine survivors of a tribe which once numbered in the thousands. The next time he saw them was in 1958, they were down to a handful of confused, despairing individuals deported from their own land. This book is about their slow, painful extinction. Price: 16.95 USD
Farley Mowat WOMAN IN THE MISTS New York, NY, U.S.A. Warner Books, Incorporated 1987 First Printing Hard Cover/Cloth Spine Very Good Very Good Non Fiction 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall xlib. The book and the dust jacket are in overall very good condition. The book is clean, tight and bright. The dust jacket is in a mylar cover, it is not faded, clipped, or torn. 308 indexed pages. The story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa. Illustrated with full color photographs. Price: 27.50 USD
Mowat, Farley Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Warner Books Inc 1987 First Edition Hard Cover Cloth Spine Very Good Very Good Biography 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall The extremities of the boards are very lightly rubbed, the book is both clean and tight, inside and out. The dust jacket is very lightly rubbed on the extremities (can hardly see it), 380 pages. Index. Illustrated with black and white, and color photographs. Summary: "The greatest chronicler of man and nature gives us the first full-length portrait of Dian Fossey--the world-famous woman scientist and author of Gorillas in the Mist whose lonely crusade to save the mountain gorillas of Africa ended with her murder in December 1985. Two 8-page photo inserts." Price: 9.95 USD
