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THE WHALE Leonard Harrison Matthews 1977 Hardcover DJ Very Good
By Matthews, Leonard Harrison
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New York, Crescent Books, 1977. 287 pp, b/w and color photos and illustrations, index, illustrated end papers. Large format hardcover with chipped dust jacket and cracked front hinge. Pages are fine. Very Good.
Contributors include: Age Jonsgard, Robert Clarke, Robert Cushman Murphy, Tadayoshi Ichihara, Kenneth Norris, Heimir Thorleifsson, Paul Budker, Bengt Hubendick, Jon Jonsson, Erna Mohr, W.J. Slijper, A.G. Tomlin and Johan Tonnessen. The whales in mythology and folklore, their biology, whaling industry and whaling boats, whale products and whale protection. The definitive work on the history and natural history of whales.
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