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Paris, Société nationale de protection de la nature et d'acclimatation de France 1974. In-8 broché. La sécheresse au Sahel. Très bon état
8vo., First Edition; green cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with small loss (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. SCARCE.
Name inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Mainly clean tight pages with dusty very slightly marked slightly bumped boards, a little foxing and with rubbing to ends of sunned spine. Three fold-out maps in very good condition. 163pp. A study of the Kalahari Scheme designed to bring irrigation and drinking water back to the region where lakes and rivers are slowly drying up. Undated but 1919 is mentioned in the text as the latest drought data.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid. Covers have library marks and have freyed edges. First page of text has perforated stamp from library. Twelve pages of text contains the following poems: They Willed it Thus, Scrub Oak, Beyond the Lakes, Jasper Finch, Drought, Batching, Rural Slum, and are otherwise very clean and neat;
Features: Pro Patria - searching for truth, duty and valour at the Royal Military College (RMC) of Canada; The Duck Dilemma - Plagued by drought, loss of habitat and predation, North American waterfowl hit an all-time low; Symphony of Fire - Pyrotechnical wizardry at the world's largest offshore fireworks competition on the shore of Lake Ontario. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
This listing consists of pages 1-4, 7-8, and 13-18 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Plans to move 40,000 from drought areas of prairies; Court-martials in Cuba; Tension in Arizona re. Japanese agriculturists; Editorial page; Social pages; large share offering ad by Glenora Gold Mines; Vacation page; cartoon page; two pages of classified ads; large ad for David Spencer Limited. Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
