THE HISTORY OF MAN From the first Human to Primitive Culture and Beyond by Carleton S. Coon

Hardcover with no dust jacket. Binding is tight and the text is clean. Published in 1955 in Great Britain with 437 pages plus 13 pages for Index and illustrated with 32 plates, maps and drawings. . Red boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards and spine faded, corners scuffed. Ex-library book with stamps and sachet removed from inside of back board. This is the story of man who mastered the wild-fire, became a skilled hunter and healer, a tiller of earth and a herdsman. Conquered the cold and the sea, wheel-making, smelting and writing, circled the planet and found and took a new world. The story of man. A good copy.  No shipping overseas.