num_pages: 288
description: Pp. xvi 272; 4 color photo-plates 225 black-and-white photo-plates. One-quarter tan cloth lettered in green on the spine over dark green cloth boards color pictorial dust jacket 4to. Jolly takes the reader on a tour of the 1000 mile-long island of Madagascar to see the extraordinary plants and animals of its rain forests and spiny deserts. There are 40 species of lemurs and six entire families of plants that grow nowhere else. There are also 36 genera of birds found only on Madagascar. No ownership marks and no signs of use.
language: English
title: A World Like Our Own: Man and Nature in Madagascar
publisher: Yale Univ Pr