Birds, Beasts & Bature
by Vic Smith
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition
- ISBN 10
- 1858214041
- ISBN 13
- 9781858214047
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About This Item
The Pentland Press, Edinburgh, 1996. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Fine Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 166 pages. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Vic Smith arrived in Vom on the Plateau in Nigeria in 1957 where, apart from about a year in Lagos and a month or two in Bornu Province, he worked in the Veterinary Research Laboratories until his departure from the country. He writes in a straightforward way about diseases such as rinderpest, rabies and foot-and-mouth, and the production of viral vaccines. The technical information he gives is enlivened from time to time by anecdotal material eg the fine vegetables on sale to Europeans in Jos "grown in plots fertilised with 'night soil' from the native quarters"; and the dead horse on the coldroom floor, "its legs pointing vertically upwards with cartons of precious vaccines balanced precariously on its hooves"! Vic Smith's book gives a good idea of what life was like for an expatriate in Vom during the late 1950s and early 1960s. One learns a lot also about the bird life, and the methods adopted for photographing, netting, ringing and, sometimes, nursing the many birds which frequent or visit on migratory flights the Nigerian Plateau area. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography; 20th century; ISBN: 1858214041. ISBN/EAN: 9781858214047. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8941. . 9781858214047
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8941
- Title
- Birds, Beasts & Bature
- Author
- Vic Smith
- Format/Binding
- Softcover (Stiff Boards)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1858214041
- ISBN 13
- 9781858214047
- Publisher
- The Pentland Press
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Autobiography: General, Veterinary Medicine, nigeria, africa, birds, Biography & Autobiography; 20th century; ISBN: 1858214041 EAN: 9781858214047 Vic Smith Birds, Beasts & Bature
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