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- From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: lemurs in literature
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 14:11:52 GMT
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- jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) wrote:
- > jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
- >> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) wrote:
- >>> Perhaps I should post reviews of some books about lemurs.
- >>> That is, if I can find any.
- >> Frans Lanting: "Madagascar". It's a recently published (and rather
- >> expensive) book of photographs of the Madagascan landscape and wildlife.
- >> Lemurs are only part of it. That place is *alien*.
- > But of course, lemurs are an *important* part of it. Anyway, hmm, you're
- > in the UK, I wonder if I could get that book through interlibrary loan
- > here. Where'd you see it?
-
- I've seen it in several places that sell art and photography books. Here's
- a citation for it:
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- Type of Material: Book
- LC Call Number: DT469.M28 L36 1990
- Author: Lanting, Frans.
- Title: Madagascar : a world out of time / photographs and text
- by Frans Lanting ; introduction by Gerald Durrell ;
- essays by Alison Jolly and John Mack.
- Publication Info: New York, N.Y. : Aperture, c1990.
- Phys. Description: 143 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
- Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 142).
- Subjects: Madagascar--Description and travel--1981-
- Other Names: Jolly, Alison.
- Other Names: Mack, John.
- LC Card Number: 90081488
- ISBN: 0-89381-422-9 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0-89381-458-X (pbk.)
-
- It might be cheaper in the US: I haven't seen the paperback here.
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