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Coral Island: portrait of an atoll

Author: Marston Bates, Donald Abbott
ISBN #: B0007DWZO4
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Publisher Location: New York
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: very good
Edition: First edition
Pub Date: 1958
light wear to tips, corners and edges of the book and jacket, clean and unmarked. First printing, A.8-58(V). Marston Bates (1906 – 1974) and Donald Abbott (1920-1986) were American zoologists and university professors of U. Michigan and Stanford University respectively. They spent several months with an American expedition to the Caroline island group in the South Pacific "studying the relationship of man to his environment in an island society where civilization as we know it had the least possible effect." From the flap. This their nonscientific account of their experiences. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.