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Etat : NEW. Nico Williams (illustrateur).

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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Foreword byAfn Chief Isadore Day.this copy is signed on the title page by Mark Zelinski.the binding is tight and square the text is clean of marks.Like the Galapagos and the Serengeti, The Niagara Escarpment is designated as a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve. One of the world's unique natural wonders, The Escarpment defines an area across Southern Ontario and Manitoulin Island. Its ecosystems support hundreds of at-risk species that coexist alongside the most densely populated and heavily developed region in Canada.Through Mark Zelinski?s images, and through the personal accounts of conservationists, scientists, scholars and residents of Indigenous and settler communities, readers have the opportunity experience a multi-layered perspective of the living escarpment. ?Heart Of Turtle Island: The Niagara Escarpment? is also a tribute to the work and ideals of growing legions of individuals and organizations that strive to protect The Niagara Escarpment.In the preface Zelinski writes: ?The Escarpment provides. For millennia, plants, birds, animals, and human enterprise have coexisted in its bounty. Its ancient limestone naturally purifies the water that runs through it. Its health offers us a reflection of our own health. The Niagara Escarpment is a living symbol of the immense scope of planetary time, and majesty, a gift to enjoy with respect and gratitude during our brief visit here on Turtle Island.? Signed by Author.

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Etat : Very good. 83, 39 b/w illus. . PB. Vg in slightly torn wrapper. .

Etat : Very good. 83, 39 b/w illus. . PB. Signature to front cover, some light foxing. .

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Etat : New.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1889). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", 1888, Vol. 179 - Series B. Pp. 181-191 a. 7 lithographed plates. First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes a series of remains, in better condition, than the bones from Lord Howe's Island, which Owen described in 1886 and named Meiolania platyceps. The remains belongs to Horned Turtles, and not to a giant lizard, Meiolania ("Small roamer") is an extinct genus of cryptodire turtle from the Oligocene to Holocene, with the last relic populations at New Caledonia which survived until 2,000 years ago.The animal was rather large, measuring 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) in length, making it the second-largest known nonmarine turtle or tortoise, surpassed only by Colossochelys atlas from Asia, which lived in the Pleistocene. It lived in Australia and New Caledonia. Remains have also been found on the island of Efate in Vanuatu, associated with settlements from the Lapita culture.