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DJ with light edgewear. A handsome and tight copy with the slightest of foxing to the fore edge. ; B&w photographs and numerous line drawings in text. The author was leading the Oxford Exploration Club's expedition to British Guiana. "Among the most remarkable creatures that Major Hingston describes are the Red Houlers, Alouatta Senicoulus Macconelli, monkeys with loud barking noises how live in tribes in the canopy. Each tribe apparently keeping to its territory of seven or so square miles. Then there is the sloth that moves like a "slow-motion-picture" and which, though unable to get on about the ground, can swim. (.) The chapter on the ants and termites is as lurid as a futuristic novel. (.) The forest is full of marvels, and Major Hingston writes about them in a very readable style." P. B. - Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Vol. 80, No. 4162 (AUGUST 26th, 1932) , p. 965 (1 page); 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages

Condizioni: very good in very good dust jacket