Rainforest. Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines. First Printing. Signed by the Author

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London. Profile Books. 2018. First Edition/First Printing (full number line including 1 to copyright page). Hard Cover. Medium 8vo. 6.5 x 9.3 . ([16.5cm x 23.5cm] approx. 424 pp. Royal dark blue boards with bold silver titles to the spine. Beautiful coloured endpapers with photographs of parrots. The rest of the text is lavishly illustrated in colour with photographs taken by Thomas Marent. Dust wrapper illustrated to both wraps. Flat signed by the author without dedication to the title page. Rainforests are the lungs of our planet - regulators of the earth's temperature and weather. They are also home to 50 per cent of the world's animals and plants - which for centuries have been the source of many of our key medicines. And yet we've all heard of their systematic destruction; the raising of trees to make way for plantations of oil palms or cattle, the disenfranchisement of indigenous peoples, and the corruption that leads to illegal logging and pollution. But this is the full story you've never heard: an in depth, wide-ranging, first-hand narrative that not only looks at the state of the world's tropical rainforests today and the implications arising from their continuing decline, but also at what is being done, and can be done in future, to protect the forests and the 1.6 billion people that depend upon them. It is inspirational, too, in its descriptions of the rainforest's remarkable birds and plants . and its indigenous people. Rainforest is a personal story, drawing on the author's many years' experience at the frontline of the fight to save the rainforests, explaining the science and history of the campaigns, and what it has felt like to be there, amid the conflicts and dilemmas. Scarce in signed state and condition. The dust jacket will be protected with a new inert archival quality acetate sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional photographs. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message.

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Titel

Rainforest. Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines. First Printing. Signed by the Author

Verlag

London. Profile Books

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

1781256365

ISBN-13

9781781256367

Einband

Hardcover

Auflage

1st Edition

Zustand

As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

New

Signiert

Signed by Author(s)

Verkäuferkataloge

• ecology, geography, science, memoir, signed

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