GALAPAGOS WORLD'S END

  • Hardcover
  • New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1927)
By BEEBE, William
New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1927). First Edition. Hardcover. Minor rubbing to edges. About Fine. John Tee-Van. Sixth printing bound by the Harcourt Bindery in 3/4 blue morocco leather (6-1/4" x 9-1/4") with gilt rules, gilt-decorated and lettered spine with four raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Illustrated mostly from photographs by John Tee-Van.

William Beebe (1877-1962) was a naturalist, oceanographer, ornithologist, and an executive of the New York Zoological Society. With Otis Barton, he was the first to use the bathysphere, a deep-sea diving device, using it to set a dive record of 3,028 feet in 1934 that was not broken until 1949. Beebe wrote over 800 articles and 24 books on natural history.

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