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A Voice for Wildlife: A Call for a New Ethic in Conservation
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A Voice for Wildlife: A Call for a New Ethic in Conservation Hardcover - 1974

by Scheffer, Victor B. (signed)

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NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Good/Very good. Signed at the top of the title page in purple ink by Scheffer. Uncommon signed. Scheffer was a marine biologist who worked for thirty years for government agencies, including the National Park Service, Forest Service, and Fish and Wildlife Service, before he moved to academia at the University of Washington in 1969 and devoted himself to popular writing. He won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1970 for The Year of the Whale. As the jacket says of this volume, "The purpose of this personal, at times poetic and at times philosophical, appreciation of birds and beasts is to stimulate thought about wildlife management and to predict the directions in which it is moving." A whole slew of figures important to the wildlife management movement are thus mentioned and cited. Green cloth with silver lettering, dark green endpapers. Handsome illustration by Ugo Mochi. A good or better copy in green cloth with light sunning to edges and, notably, a hard bump to lower text block face that's left creasing on the lower portion of pages through much of the text and short tears on a few pages.  In a very good pale jacket with light soiling and loss just to the edge of the upper left corner of front panel.
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