Dragon Lizards of Komodo: An Expedition to the Lost World of the Dutch East Indies

Title: Dragon Lizards of Komodo: An Expedition to the Lost World of the Dutch East Indies

Author: Burden, W. Douglas

Publication: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927.

Description: Account of American naturalist William Burden's 1926 expedition to the Island of Komodo in the Dutch East Indies to study Komodo dragons. First edition. 54 black-and-white photo illustrations. Bound in publisher's full red cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial endpapers. Lacking dust jacket. 9 x 6.25 inches; xii, 221, [1] pages, [48] pages of plates. A touch of edgewear to the binding, light toning and foxing to the endleaves, and the frontispiece loose. Very Good. A clean, collectible copy. William Douglas Burden (1898-1978) led expeditions to various tropical islands and the Arctic, but he was best known for his expedition to Komodo, which his wife Catherine also participated in. The expedition party was able to capture three Komodo dragons using traps baited with buffalo meat. Burden was a member of the Boone and Crockett Club of New York City, and this book was approved by their editorial committee.