Requiem for the Reef, The Crown of Thorns, A Story of Official Distortion

Description

End papers have map illustration of the Great Barrier Reef, several colour plates, of particular interest is the inscription by the author, "To Xavier Herbert with kind regards Peter James". It would appear that the book may have belonged to Xavier Herbert The book traces the history of the Crown-of-Thorn infestation on the Barrier Reef and the official reaction to the issue in the 1970s.