Serengeti: A Kingdom of Predators

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 114pp. Quarto [30 cm] Thickly woven beige cloth over boards. Bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown. In the dust jacket, with a 3" scratch to the front panel, and general light rubbing to the rear panel. Illustrated with the author's own spectacular photographs. Schaller broke new ground when he stalked, lived with, photographed, and studied the lion, cheetah, leopard, hyena, and wild dog. He also made new discoveries about the predators' main quarries, including the wildebeest and zebra- the "prey species" that are a fundamental part of the natural community.