The Lost Ark. New and Rediscovered Animals of the Twentieth Century. With a Foreword by Gerald Durrell
London, Harper Collins Publishers, 1993.
Octavo, 287 pages with numerous illustrations plus 16 pages of colour plates.
Colour pictorial papered boards; a fine copy with the dustwrapper with a minute closed tear to the top edge.
'Since 1901, a whole host of new and rediscovered creatures has turned up [including' a 7-foot-long forest hog, a gigantic dragon a fish resurrected from 64 million years of extinction, a megamouth shark, a monster-sized earwig and deep-sea worms over 8 feet long' (dustwrapper).
Item #130504
Price (AUD):
$40.00
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