Kangaroos, Wallabies and Rat-Kangaroos - two volumes

Grigg, Gordon & Peter Jarman & Ian Hume (eds.)

Verlag: Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton,, 1989

Beschreibung

Two quarto hardcover volumes; brown boards with gilt upper board and spine titling, yellow endpapers; 835pp., colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; a few spots on endpapers and prelims; spotting to upper text block edges. Very good to near fine otherwise in like dustwrappers now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "Some fifty thousand years after the discovery of kangaroos by the first human inhabitants of Australia, three hundred and sixty years after the first written observations on their mode of generation and thirty years after the formation of the Australian Mammal Society, by a group of hopefuls on a field excursion to Portee Station, it is appropriate to hold a meeting to find what is known about kangaroos and their allies." This is the opening address of the meeting to which G.B. Sharman alludes, and the book is the result of that meeting. There are about fifty Australian species of kangaroos, wallabies and rat-kangaroos collectively grouped in the family Macropodoidea. The two day symposium in 1988 assembled a wide range of interest from conservationists, researchers, teachers, zoologists, animal behaviourists and biologists. Many have contributed papers on all aspects of Macropodoidea life. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 92490

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Kangaroos, Wallabies and Rat-Kangaroos - two...

Verlag: Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton,

Erscheinungsdatum: 1989