OPERATION RHINO. By JOHN GORDON DAVIS

 Item Description: Joseph., London., 1972. Hard Cover Brown Boards. Book Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.. Dj is unclipped , slightly scuffed on head& tail , front cnrs, top front edge and fore-edge. Book is slightly grey on edges. Maps as eps, 224pp, 16pp b & w photog plates. "Rhodesia's Operation Rhino is extraordinary and massive--not in numbers of personnel or equipment but in the nature of the task, the dangers, the terrain, and the difficulties of trans-location. Living not in herds (rhinos don't even like rhinos), but in small pockets scattered over vast areas of fantastically rugged country hundreds of miles from civilization, these solitary, irascible beasts have to be individually tracked, stalked, and shot with a drug dart, then tracked for further miles until they succumb to the drug." Size: 222x26p75mm.

a very interesting book considering the current onslaught of poaching which threatens this species very survival.