Cry of the Kalahari

Author - Mark & Delia Owens
Publisher - Collins; 1985, Third Impression
A good hardcover book is a fair-good dustjacket.
Dust jacket is creased and has two closed tears to the front panel; now in a loose protective plastic overwrap.
341pp of text including index and illustrations.
The story of two young scientists exploring the secrets of a primordial world that has changed during the last millennium not only with climate.
But by the end of their 7 year study, they saw it suddenly threatened by the shadow of man as he stretched out his hand for the oil, the diamonds and the other precious minerals lying beneath the wilderness on which a million creatures depended for their lives.