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The green brain

by Frank Herbert

In an overpopulated world, the International Ecological Organisation battles to clear the Mato Grosso jungle for human habitation by systematically exterminating voracious insects with advanced weaponry.

Accession 9305 ISBN 0450015211 Publisher New English Library
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