INVENTORY #4801
Cranes of the World
JOHNSGARD, Paul A.
Regular price
$35.00
Sale
Publication Info
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1983
- Place Published: Bloomington
- ISBN: 0253112559
Details
- Condition: Very Good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: Yes
- Jacket Condition: Very good
- Details:
xiii, 257 p. 29 cm. 23 colour and 24 b&w plates. Blue cloth hardcover with gold impressing in mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket. Bookplate of former owner on front free endpaper. A little dust on lower edge of text block. Topics include: classification and evolution; individualistic and social behaviour; vocalizations; ecology and population dynamics; comparative reproductive biology; aviculture and hybridization; endangered species and conservation; cranes in myth and legend. Includes natural histories of individual crane species, origins of scientific and vernacular names of cranes, key to species and subspecies.