Field Guide to the Trees of the Kruger National Park
by van Wyk, Piet
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0869772236
- ISBN 13
- 9780869772232
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About This Item
(Cape Town: Struik, 1984) 0869772236. 8vo; olive green boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 272, incl. index; lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs, maps and explanatory drawings. Dustwrapper and edges of boards slightly rubbed; trace of foxing to endpapers and reverse of dustwrapper. Very good condition. "In 1973-74 the two-volume work Trees of the Kruger National Park, an authoritative botanical study, was published. After the enormous interest shown in this work, now out of print, the author, Piet van Wyk, Head of the Department of Research and Information of the National Parks Board, was urged to produce a handbook for visitors to take along with them on their trips to the Kruger Park. This handy format will become an indispensable reference for every visitor interested in trees as each species was photographed by him in full colour in its natural habitat and each entry contains a wealth of information on the tree's fruits, bark, flowers and leaves, aspects of its growth rate, weight, uses of the wood, medicinal value and much much more. An additional feature in Field Guide to the Trees of the Kruger National Park is the inclusion of notes on a further 175 species which, although not growing to tree proportions in the park, do so elsewhere and are classified as trees in the National Tree List." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4954
- Title
- Field Guide to the Trees of the Kruger National Park
- Author
- van Wyk, Piet
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0869772236
- ISBN 13
- 9780869772232
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: Struik, 1984) 0869772236
- Place of Publication
- Cape Town
- This edition first published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Trees. Dendrology. Botany. Vegetation types. Lowveld. Mpumalanga. Limpopo. Kruger National Park Natural History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
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