THE WORLD OF THE WALRUS
by Richard Perry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. GOOD book in GOOD pri
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Cassell and Co., London 1967 Hardcover, with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. GOOD book in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket `Since the days when the Vikings were hunting the 'whale horse' off the North Cape in the ninth century, man has persecuted the walrus without remission. For all his size this comically ugly, cumbersome animal lives in perpetual fear of war with the polar bear and the whale. Another danger is the loss of his tusks, for he uses these to plough up shellfish banks, and if they are damaged he may starve. Includes thirteen b&w photographs and map.
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- Seller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 44002
- Title
- THE WORLD OF THE WALRUS
- Author
- Richard Perry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. GOOD book in GOOD pri
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell and Co., London
- Date Published
- 1967
- Pages
- 162 pages
- Keywords
- Walruses Arctic animals Eskimo Chukchee tribes herds white bear eskimoes geography
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Pegasus Book Orphanage
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McCrae, Victoria
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