About this title: Describes in rhyme the destruction of Borneo's ecological balance when DDT, used to kill the malaria-spreading mosquitoes, also killed the cats, causing a plague of rats, and literally brought the roofs down on the farmers' heads.
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Description: Good. Ex-library copy in good condition with a mylar cover over the dust jacket, reading wear and some library stamps and stickers. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Pictorial Hardcover
Publisher: Young Scott Books, Massachusetts
Date Published: 1971
Description: Aruego Jose. Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. A book written in verse & illustrated as a play that children can perform, based on the unexpected effects of DDT on the island of Borneo. A clean unmarked book, unpaginated. Bound in pictorial hard covers, 8" tall & 9 1/2" wide. The intact dust wrapper, is rubbed on the spine and fold ends, & is a little dusty. read more
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