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Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons
by Gerald Durrell
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 000211576X
- ISBN 13
- 9780002115766
- Seller
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Glenroy, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Collins, 1977. First Edition, with illustrations in the text, a very good copy.
Shelf wear and slight tears on edges edges of dustjacket. Sticker on inside cover, name written at the top of the first page inside the cover. Red dot sticker on cover.
Synopsis
'On this speck of volcanic soil in the middle of a vast sea, a complete, unique and peaceful world was created slowly and carefully. It waited there for hundreds of thousands of years for an annihilating invasion of voracious animals for which it was totally unprepared, a cohort of rapacious beasts led by the worst predator in the world, Homo sapiens. In an incredibly short space of time, a number of unique species had vanished...' Mauritius, the green and mountainous island in the Indian Ocean, was once the home of the ill-fated dodo, and by the 1970s it still had many unique but endangered species, hanging onto their existence by their fingernails.When Gerald Durrell went to rescue some of these creatures from extinction, he experienced danger and discomfort, but enjoyed the adventures greatly. He spent nights in the jungle looking for bats and pink pigeons, and climbed near-vertical rock faces to find Telfair's skinks and Gunther's geckos, spending his spare time exploring the enchanted worlds of the coral reefs with their many species of multicoloured fish. By the end of his trip, he had an extraordinary collection of animals to take to his Jersey sanctuary from where the progeny could, in time, be restored to Mauritius.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shane Nixon
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- goldenbatspinkpigeons
- Title
- Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons
- Author
- Gerald Durrell
- Format/Binding
- Shelf wear and slight tears on edges of dustjacket. Sticker on inside cover, name written at the top of the first page inside th
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 000211576X
- ISBN 13
- 9780002115766
- Publisher
- Harpercollins Publishers Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Gerald Durrell, First Edition, Hardcover, Mauritius
Terms of Sale
Shane Nixon
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About the Seller
Shane Nixon
Biblio member since 2020
Glenroy, Victoria
About Shane Nixon
I've collected books for decades and now it time for me to share them with the world
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