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Giants of the Monsoon Forest
by Shell, Jacob
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393247767
- ISBN 13
- 9780393247763
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. Fine First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean unfaded black boards with gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with awesome black and white photographs, maps. 255 pages with index. Clean, crisp dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A journey through the hidden world of elephants and their riders. Some of these elephants work by day and are set free at night. High in the mountainous rainforests of Burma and India grow some of the world's last stands of mature wild teak. For more than a thousand years, people here have worked with elephants to lg these otherwise impassable forests and move people and goods under cover of the forest canopy. Geographer Jacob Shell takes us deep into this strange elephant country to explore the lives of these extraordinarily intelligent creatures..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029133
- Title
- Giants of the Monsoon Forest
- Author
- Shell, Jacob
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0393247767
- ISBN 13
- 9780393247763
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2019
- Keywords
- ELEPHANTS, INDIAN BURMA, ANIMALS, HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIPS, JACOB SHELL, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals; Nature; India;
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