Ratcliffe, Francis

FLYING FOX AND DRIFTING SAND. The Adventures of a Biologist in Australia.

With an Introduction by Julian Huxley. Pp. [xvi]+342(last colophon), frontispiece, plus 35 plates (including 4 maps); demy 8vo; brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the boards a trifle canted and slightly scuffed, fore-corners lightly bruised; later (not recent) endpapers, commercial bookplate and bookseller's stamp on upper pastedown, the half-title page offset, hinge starting near front, a little light foxing; Chatto & Windus, London, 1938. First edition. *Francis Ratcliffe (1904-1970) was brought to Australia by the CSIRO in 1929 to study flying foxes in Queensland and northern New South Wales. Item #183686

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