144 pp, hardback, no dust jacket as issued. \"Halfbound\" with spine covered in coarse cloth, blind-embossed with title in a \'typewriter\' font. Cover boards, front and back, printed with examples of journal pages. Endpapers in a \'wire\' finish brown stock. Fairly free of any shelf-wear (slight fraying at foot of spine; back cover board shows signs of delamination at edges) Binding is otherwise tight and square. Pages are clean and bright with no marking or annotations. Illustrated throughout with photographs and facsimile journal pages, printed on high-quality art paper. - Mike Fay spent over a year walking across the Congo rain forest, documenting the fauna and flora of the region. A journey of some 3,200 kilometres, he was accompanied by Pygmy and Bantu guides, the photographer Michael \"Nick\" Nichols and a number of zoologists and scientists met along the way.