About this title: In 1984 a team of paleoanthropologists in northern Kenya discovered the most complete skeleton to date of a classic "missing link" between apes and humans. Now team leader Alan Walker and his wife Pat Shipman tell the full story of this epochal find, giving an unprecedented, detailed yet lively portrait of our earliest ancestors. Illustrations and photos throughout.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780679747833ISBN:0679747834
Description: Good. Moderate cover wear with scuffing to edges and creasing. Slight shift to spine. "USED" sticker on back cover. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1996-04-09
ISBN-13:9780679426240ISBN:0679426248
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, no tears or chips to the DJ, interior clean and bright, binding tight, a wonderful copy throughout. read more
Description: Good. Purchasing this item supports Pierce County libraries. Thriftbooks and PCL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679426240ISBN:0679426248
Description: Good. Hardcover ex-library book with dust jacket in good condition. All usual stamps and markings. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. read more
Edition: Vintage Books ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780679747833ISBN:0679747834
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very Good. Clean, tight, square. Text pages & photo illustrations clear, bright and unmarked. Slight soil on top edge and minor crease on cover. No highlightings or underlinings. All items ships within 24 Hours.... Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 368 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Like New. Hardcover w / dustjacket. Like new; no internal markings; has lost its "Brand New" shine but no obvious defects. Book condition is Used-Like New, DJ is Very Good. In sealed plastic protection. 1st. 1996. Hardcover w / dustjacket. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679426240ISBN:0679426248
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor corner wear, otherwise pages are clean & unmarked. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 8 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated, New York, New York, USA
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679426240ISBN:0679426248
Description: Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BI4-A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color illustrted black wraps with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. A firsthand account of the quest to understand human origins. There is the joy of fieldwork, the thrill of discovery, the sweat of excavation, the challenge of labortaory research and the reward of unraveling information locked up in the fossilized bones of ancient human ... read more
Edition: 1st ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, New York
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679426240ISBN:0679426248
Description: Good in Good dust jacket. Ex-Library. spine slightly bent; clean. Unknown printing. x, 338 p. , [8] p. of plates: ill. , map; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-326) and index. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679426240ISBN:0679426248
Description: Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. AP4-Book has some light peeling on the front bottom and back left side, very light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise very good. "The Wisdom of Bones provides a vivid insider's perspective on the global efforts to document our own ancestry. "-Richard E. Leakey. read more
Edition: Vintage Books ed. Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780679747833ISBN:0679747834
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. No ugly remainder mark. New but has light scuffing to covers/edges/corners. Pages are clean, crisp and tight. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 368 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Second Paperback Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780679747833ISBN:0679747834
Description: Fine. No Jacket Issued. In 1984 a team of paleoanthropologists found an almost complete slelton of Homo erectus, a creature that lived 1.5 million years ago. The reseachers found an adolescent male, the "Nariokotome boy". This is the second paperback printing of what looks to be an interesting book. The condition of this soft cover Trade Paperback is Fine. This book has a very clean & bright cover. The pages are clean, bright and unmarked. This spine is very smooth and the pages are nice and ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Random House of Canada, Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679426240ISBN:0679426248
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Knopf, 1996. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679426240ISBN:0679426248
Description: As New in As New jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. B&W photos and illustrations. Very fine book in very fine dj. read more
"This book is a surprise for those used to reading a routine and heartless evaluation of the history and study of mankind. In Wisdom of the Bones Alan Walker recalls the drama, pathos, and historical parallels that accompany the find of the Nariokotome boy in 1984 at a site on the west side of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya and the impact of this find on our knowledge of Homo erectus and the emergence of modern Homo sapiens."
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