Shaharin Yussof, - The Natural And Other Histories Of Batu Caves. First Edition.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Nature Society, 1997. Original coloured and illustrated limp glossy wrappers. (ix), 55pp. Many coloured illustrations on 14 plates with extensive captions, after author's photographs, some line-drawings in text, chronology, 2 full-page sketch-maps, on of Malaysia and one indication main caves at Bukit Batu, with concise legenda, acknowledgements, concise biography to author with portrait on lower outer wrapper, appendices I-III (glossary, list of other known Caves in Bukit Batu, bibliography and additional reading list), table of contents. Supplies interesting multi-disciplinary information on [pre-historic] Batu Caves, Bukit Batu in the vicinity of Kulala Lumpur, touching on subjects as history and archeollogy, conservational history and status, scientific research history, geology and formation, ecology of limestone and caves, fauna, temple caves (Hinduism, Ganesha temple, ramayana cave..). Very fine copy.