The Dragon Hunters. Illustrations by Robert Shetterly.
first edition
A Truman Talley Book, E. P. Dutton Inc., (1984). First Edition
by Graham, Frank, Jr.
A Truman Talley Book, E. P. Dutton Inc., (1984). First Edition. Octavo, white cloth & boards (hardcover), xii + 334 pp. Near-Fine in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: Some twenty-two years ago Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring shocked a nation by announcing the bad news: we were polluting our environment with powerful pesticides. Now, Frank Gram, Jr.’s, The Dragon Hunters dramatically describes the good news: ingenious new ways are being found to bring under control the great crop and forest pests of our time. From Maine to California, from Florida to Texas and beyond, there’s at least one regional superpest that annually devastates farms or forests. But in recent years individual scientists and pest-specific envrionmental teams have been patiently puzzling out many of nature’s own pest-control secrets. Their journeys of discovery and their hard-won successes after frequent failures are as varied and fascinating as the unique strengths and weaknesses of the insect scourges themsleves. This book tells their stories. (Inventory #: 61069bd)