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The Destruction of California
NY, Macmillan, (1965). "A scathing indictment of man's folly," by one of the pioneers of sustainable development and biological diversity, author of the 1959 text Environmental Conservation. Signed by the author, with "best regards." Foredge foxing; near fine in a very good dust jacket with a couple of small edge chips. Laid in is a news clipping announcing that Dasmann will be leaving Humboldt State College for a post with the Conservation Foundation in Washington, DC. The clipping has caused minor offsetting on the page of the author's signature. Dasmann would later serve as president of The Wildlife Society and consult for UNESCO, developing the Man and the Biosphere Programme in 1971. [#036640] SOLD

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