THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE: A PERSONAL INQUIRY INTO THE IN SOUTH AFRICA

  Item Description:  Collins. London. (1969) reprint 8vo (147 x 234mm). Ppxiv,393. B/w line illustrations By Berdine Ardrey, bibliography. Purple-mottled boards, spine titled in gilt to black spine-label. Slight use but very good complete dust-wrapper. "A territory is an are of space which an animal guards as its exclusive possession and which it will defend against all members of its kind. In this revolutionary book, Robert Ardrey takes a concept familiar to every biologist, correlates for the first time a fair sampling of all scientific observations of this form of behaviour, and demonstrates that man obeys the same laws as do many other animal species"