counter allen david evans alex (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good +. 276pp. Quarto [26cm]. Red cloth over boards; title stamped in white on spine. Boards are minimally soiled and mildly toned at edges. Dust jacket is also toned and lightly soiled, and there are a handful of small, closed tears to the edges. A heavily illustrated book about the African-descended people in the Suriname rain forest whose ancestors escaped into the jungle after being transported by 17th-century Dutch slave ships. The authors--a neurobiologist and an electrical engineer--spent eight years among the isolated group, documenting their customs and traditions.

Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Allen Counter and inscribed to biologist Stephen Jay Gould on front paste down, calling him "a great friend and colleague. I really enjoyed teaching Nat Sci 36 with you. Good reading and Warmest regards, [signed] Allen Counter." Dated 1982. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, spine panel a little sunned. Samuel Allen Counter (1944-2017) was an African American professor of neurology and founder of Harvard's Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. In this book he and engineer David Evans discuss meeting in the rainforest of Suriname, South America amongst the natives, also of African descent. This event was covered in a 1978 PBS TV documentary.