The Time Is Short And The Water Rises
Operation Gwamba: The Story of the Rescue of 10,000 Animals from Certain
Death in a South American Rain Forest
by John Walsh with Robert Gannon
In Surinam, in the exotic world of a South American rain forest, gwamba
means animal. For 18 months Operation Gwamba meant John Walsh and his
danger-filled struggle to save 10,000 animals from certain death. It began
when the ISPA learned that thousands of forest creatures were trapped by the
spreading artificial lake behind the Afobaka Dam in Surinam. Illsutrated
with B&W and color photos.
E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1967, First Edition, Ex-library, 224 pages, 6
½" x 9 ½", blue cloth with black and white lettering, dust jacket, blue
endpapers, illustrated.
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