244 pages, black and white plates, five coloured ones. The jacket is price clipped and lightly chipped at the edges, the boards bumped, also at the edges. The pages are lightly tanned and the preliminaries lightly foxed, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy, though obviously second hand. "Following his expedition to Indonesia, as told in Zoo Quest for a Dragon, David Attenborough's next animal collecting and filming trip was to New Guinea, home of the exotic Birds of Paradise. The quest demanded hazardous treks across treacherous terrain in the Jimi Valley and on the edges of uncharted territory."