HISTORICAL MAMMAL INCIDENCE IN THE CAPE PROVINCE (VOLUME 1) - CJ Skead

1980

Hardcover with gilt titling in good condition. Some marks on the page edges and previous owner name/inscription on the endpaper.

 Although considered the first volume of a series, this is equally a stand-alone work for the region of southern Africa first settled by Europeans. "After completing the volume dealing with the eastern half of the Cape Province, the need for a complementary record for the western half of the Cape became obvious, the more so because all white occupation and subsequent expansion began there . In this volume, the system of dealing with individual geographical sectors as units containing their own information on the mammals and the ecological conditions, has been abandoned in favour of a system which deals with each species in systematic order and as it occurred in the various districts or regions known today. Thus, the narrative of each starts at the Cape Peninsula and works northwards to Namaqualand and the Orange River, to which is added a few remarks on the status of mammals immediately north of the Orange in southern South West Africa, remarks intended to give the reader an idea of the strength of mammal status immediately north of our chosen area."

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