The Last Horizon

224pp. Purple titles and design on white light card covers, text on rear. Text block edges sprayed blue; ‘maps’ in to text. 12mo. Clear signs of wear on extremities; corners and edges rubbed. Colour on text block edges fading, tanning and foxing on inside of covers. Page margins tanned, else internally neat and clean.

Dasmann, a visionary environmentalist who passed away in 2002, wrote in this his first book that he did not “wish to be a detached observer of the destruction of a world and a way of life which I have grown fond.”