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Very Good. Size: 8x5x0; In Very Good+ condition. Eleanor Hibben was a cinematographer, capturing animals from around the world on film. Her movies became part of a nature series created by Walt Disney Studios. She and her husband, Frank Hibben, had a yearlong network television series in the 1950s. Their expeditions took them to all seven continents and included 26 African safaris. Mrs. Hibben also worked on behalf of nature and animal organizations. She was the first woman president of the American Nature Assn., which publishes Nature magazine. Frank Cumming Hibben (1910-2002) was a well-known archaeologist whose research focused on the U.S. Southwest. In addition to being an archaeologist, Hibben was a big-game hunter, and was awarded the Weatherby Hunting and Conservation Award in 1964. He also served in various capacities related to wild animals, such as chairman of the Albuquerque Zoological Board (1960-1970) and chairman of the New Mexico State Game and Fish Commission (1961-1971). Hibben's writings were first published in 1936. Over the ensuing decades, he authored hundreds of articles and numerous books dealing with the anthropology and archaeology of Europe, Africa, the United States and the American Southwest and on big-game hunting. Some of his books include The Lost Americans (1946), Treasure in the Dust (1951), Prehistoric Man in Europe (1958), Digging Up America (1960), Hunting in Africa (1962), Kiva Art of the Anasazi (1975) and a series of limited editions including the most recent Under the African Sun (1999). His articles appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, Field and Stream, Outdoor Life, the Denver Post, Empire and many sporting magazines and professional periodicals.
