Isbn: 9780575023581 - assault on the amazon (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Light wear, soiling to boards. Content is clean with minor age tone. DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Orange paper over boards, with gold lettering to the spine. Black and white pictorial dust jacket with orange and white lettering. Dated 1978 on copyright and title page. 320 pages. Good condition. Binding is strong and square. Foot of the spine is very lightly bumped. Pages toned. Faint foxing to the edges. No marks or writing. Dust jacket is toned, but clean and crisp. No tears or creasing. Overal good condition. This book is from the collection of Thomas Lovejoy. Dr. Lovejoy was an influential ecologist, field biologist, and activist; former head of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, World Wildlife Fund, and advisor to the United Nations and Smithsonian Institution. He is credited with introducing the term 'biological diversity' to the mainstream environmental movement. In addition, he was a passionate collector of books on the natural world. He died in 2021 and we are very excited to present a selection of his books. Please browse the entire catalogue here on ABE or contact us for instructions on how to get to it. Thomas Lovejoy's name is not written in this book- it will come with a card stating provenance.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1978. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. This book examines the rapid, state-backed industrialization, colonization, and corporate exploitation of the Brazilian rainforest under military rule. The book details the severe ecological devastation and the displacement of indigenous populations and traditional communities caused by this aggressive model of economic development. Tan cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 320 pages including index. Name in red ink to top corner of free front endpaper. Else contents clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is very slightly sunned to spine and is scuffed. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.…

Zustand: Poor. Dust jacket has light scratches/marks and outer edges have minor scuffs/nicks. Textblock has foxing/tanning/marks. Content has tanning but still in good readable condition. Despatched within 24 hours.