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Living Treasure
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Title: Living Treasure
Author: Ivan T. Sanderson
Publisher: The Viking Press, New York
Published: 1941
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 290
Catalogs: Nature, Animals, Vintage Travel
Description: With 32 illustrations by the author. Original yellow-green cloth binding with wraparound monkey illustrations and gilt text on spine. Dust-jacket is torn in multiple places: along the hinge of the spine, across the spine, and on the inner front flap. Nevertheless, it is mostly complete. Map illustration on both pastedowns. Pages are lightly toned but unmarked. This book chronicles Sanderson's naturalist research expeditions to Jamaica, British Honduras, Belize, and Yucatan, Mexico. Some of the animals described include Jamaican coneys, Haitian wild horses, Belize fence-lizards, self-starter frogs, blue mangrove crabs, crocodiles, raccoons, kinkajous, opossums, water scorpions, spiny rats, the forest basilisk, parasol ants, salamanders, tapirs, the Honduran coati, the eyra, pocket gophers, and much more. Ivan Terence Sanderson (1911-1973) was a British biologist and writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland, who became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Sanderson wrote on nature and travel, and was a frequent guest on television talk shows and variety shows of the 1950s and 60s, displaying and discussing exotic animals. Along with Belgian-French biologist Bernard Heuvelmans, Sanderson was a founding figure of cryptozoology, or the study of unknown animals, a field critics describe as a pseudoscience. Sanderson authored material on various paranormal subjects, and also wrote fiction under the pen name Terence Roberts. Hardcover, good condition. 290 pages, octavo.
Author: Ivan T. Sanderson
Publisher: The Viking Press, New York
Published: 1941
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 290
Catalogs: Nature, Animals, Vintage Travel
Description: With 32 illustrations by the author. Original yellow-green cloth binding with wraparound monkey illustrations and gilt text on spine. Dust-jacket is torn in multiple places: along the hinge of the spine, across the spine, and on the inner front flap. Nevertheless, it is mostly complete. Map illustration on both pastedowns. Pages are lightly toned but unmarked. This book chronicles Sanderson's naturalist research expeditions to Jamaica, British Honduras, Belize, and Yucatan, Mexico. Some of the animals described include Jamaican coneys, Haitian wild horses, Belize fence-lizards, self-starter frogs, blue mangrove crabs, crocodiles, raccoons, kinkajous, opossums, water scorpions, spiny rats, the forest basilisk, parasol ants, salamanders, tapirs, the Honduran coati, the eyra, pocket gophers, and much more. Ivan Terence Sanderson (1911-1973) was a British biologist and writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland, who became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Sanderson wrote on nature and travel, and was a frequent guest on television talk shows and variety shows of the 1950s and 60s, displaying and discussing exotic animals. Along with Belgian-French biologist Bernard Heuvelmans, Sanderson was a founding figure of cryptozoology, or the study of unknown animals, a field critics describe as a pseudoscience. Sanderson authored material on various paranormal subjects, and also wrote fiction under the pen name Terence Roberts. Hardcover, good condition. 290 pages, octavo.