The White Rhino Saga 1973 Ian Player SIGNED Association Copy ~ Wildlife Conservation ~ South Africa

Title: The White Rhino Saga

Author: Ian Player / Foreword by Alan Paton

Description: Inscribed by author on title page. First American Edition. Black cloth spine and orange papered boards with gilt facsimile of the author's signature on the front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. 12 pages of photographs, two maps, index. Dust jacket is modestly worn at spine ends and lightly at corners; not price clipped ($6.95); in an archival mylar sleeve. Laid-in is an unused car-sticker issued by the Natal Parks Game & Fish Preservation Board. 254 pages.

Ian Player's account of his experiences in South Africa and the efforts to save the white rhino.

Inscribed to John B. Crowell, Jr. (b. 1930), who was then President Reagan's Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, essentially being the head of the US Forest Service. Crowell was invited on a wilderness ''trail'' in South Africa with Ian Player and, in 1982, the two men went, alone, into the iMfolozi wilderness for four days. Crowell was later to assist Player in getting John Block, the Secretary of Agriculture, to be a keynote speaker at the WILD Foundation's 3rd World Wilderness Congress (October 1983). ''Inscribed with my very best - / warm wishes for John Crowell, / from, / Ian Player / 24th July 1983''.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Stein and Day
Place: New York
Year: 1973

ISBN: 0812815408

Keywords: rhinos, South Africa, Africa, wildlife conservation, Zululand, hunting, poachers, poaching, iMfolozi, Umfolozi, Operation Rhino, white rhinoceros, rhinoceros,