Last African Warriors by Gianni Giansanti

Goya's Last Works by Jonathan and Susan Grace Galass. The Frick Collection / Yale University, 2006. 1st Ed softcover exhibition catalog. Goya’s understated portrait of the woman know...

Death by Chocolate: The Last Word on a Consuming Passion by Marcel Desaulniers. Signed by both the Author and Editor. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket and a protective cover. This c...

Earth to Sky: Among Africa's Elephants, A Species in Crisis by Michael Nichols. Published by Aperture Foundation, Incorporated, 2013. 1st Ed hardcover, no dust jacket as issued. Elephants are among the earth's most sentient beings. They remember, they experience grief and joy, fear and love. Indeed, as our knowledge of these extraordinary creatures increases, the more they transcend all preconceptions of animal behavior. Michael "Nick" Nichols, longtime photographer for National Geographic as well as the magazine's editor-at-large for photography, has been working with African elephants for more than twenty years. In Earth to Sky he tells their story through poignant images that bring us directly into their habitat the lush forests and open savannas, or stark landscapes ravaged by human intervention-to observe the animals' daily engagements and activities. Nichols's photographs are accompanied here by the words of such celebrated figures in the field of conservation as Lain Douglas-Hamilton, J. Michael Fay, Peter Matthiessen, Cynthia Moss, David Quammen, and many others. In addition, Nichols engages us in his photographic journey with personal and informative introductions to each of the book's four chapters-exploring life in the wild, the ivory trade, family interactions, and programs for orphaned elephants. The survival of elephants is under dire threat from humankind, most immediately from the market for ivory. More than twenty-five thousand elephants are slaughtered each year, and their ivory is sold at astronomically high prices to countries such as China, Japan, the Philippines, and Singapore. African elephant refuges are under siege; many park rangers...

Horn of Africa by Philip Caputo, signed, numbered, limited edition, specially bound #167/250. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1980. Oatmeal cloth ...

The Last Africans Gert Chesi Perlinger Hardcover Book 1981 Published by Perlinger-Verlag, Worgl Austria, 1981 Copiously illustrated in color and black and white. A nice copy in littl...

Antique map titled 'N.W. Africa & Central Africa'. Original antique map of N.W. Africa & Central Africa. This map originates from the ‘Royal Atlas of Modern Geography’. Published by ...

1952 The Last Resorts by Cleveland Amory 1st edition hardcover. Clear Mylar jacket has been added over the original dust jacket.

Antique map titled 'Africa north part - Africa south part'. Old map of Africa showing the region of Morocco, Algeria and South Africa. This map orginates from 'General Atlas Of The W...