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The ENORMOUS ZOO
Publisher: Longmans , London, UK
Binding: blue cloth HARDcover with dustjacket 210 pages illustrated
Condition: UNread condition! retired display copy
Edition: FIRST EDITION: first printing
NOTE: All of my listings used to contain many HUGE close-up photos embedded within my listing - however in June
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Been read it is Tight - neat, no inscriptions or marks. Appears as in my photos - this is the exact copy!! A nicely preserved copy - superb copy.
Mild discernible shelf wear to the pale blue cloth boards, the interior is tight and 210 clean with pages showing many fantastic b & w photos.
There are four sections of black and white photos. Map of Queen Elizabeth National Park on page 173, map of Murchison Falls National Park on page 174. In the Appendix's you have lists of the Uganda Parks, mammals and birds.
In
original pale blue cloth HARDcover binding, with publisher's glossy pictorial dustcover which is near complete - minor repairs to underside and watermarks to top right corner mainly.
SYNOPSIS
Natural History Africa Uganda - Animals and Birds. The enormous zoo: a profile of the Uganda national parks.
A Profile of the Uganda National Parks. It isn't enough to reserve 2,500 square miles of Africa for wild animals, call it a National Park and leave the animals to get on with things. A National Park is really an enormous zoo and the animals inside it must be controlled and managed because they are living in an artificial situation. This book is the story of two of the most beautiful and celebrated parks in Africa, the Queen Elizabeth Park in the south of Uganda and Murchison Falls Park in the north, close to the source of the Nile.
Chapters
include
Looking For A Park;
Animal Meets Man;
Enter The Scientists;
The
Poachers Move In;
SOS Rhino;
The Explorers' Nile
Running The Park
'Do You Serve Blood?'
Kirkus reviews … Subtitled ""A Profile of the Uganda National Parks,"" this underlines, in terms of action, the necessity and procedures for running preserves scientifically rather than by rule of thumb. It is essentially an adventure in setting up and administering parks in such a manner. The Uganda Parks-- Queen Elizabeth and Murchison -- led in the development of the scientific approach, begun when Ken Beaton was brought in from Kenya in 1952 to take over. He and later other devoted, enterprising individuals are introduced, their tactics and experiences narrated, as Colin Willock knew them through his work on a film and on a hunt for a white rhino. One is witness to the birth of an elephant, the thinning of hippo (suggested by Fulbrighters to salvage vegetation), up-Nile travel, dealing with poachers, the handling of tourists as the warden and staff cope with the day-to-day trials of the preserve and pursue the knowledge they need to run it effectively. An interesting inside view of a subject which has generally been treated superficially by passing tourists.
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