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- PublisherImprint unknown
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0905920015
- ISBN 13 9780905920016
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages152
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Peregrine. The Private Life of the Peregrine Falcon
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Headland Publications, Penzance
(1977)
ISBN 10: 0905920015
ISBN 13: 9780905920016
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Book Description Blue hardback cloth cover. First Edition. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 152pp. With rubbed dust jacket. VG: in very good condition. Fep clipped. Seller Inventory # g2489
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PEREGRINE The Private Life of the Peregrine Falcon [Association Copy, from the Library of Eric Hosking]
Published by
Headland Publications, Penzance, Cornwall
(1977)
ISBN 10: 0905920015
ISBN 13: 9780905920016
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 152 pages; b/w illustrations after the author. Dust jacket very good, with some creasing to the front panel, price- clipped, a little general wear. Contents clean and tight, the attractive bookplate of Eric Hosking tipped onto the front pastedown, no inscriptions or other marks A fine copy in a very good jacket. Copy from the library of Eric Hosking.[Eric Hosking OBE, Hon FRPS, FBIPP (1909-1991) was widely acknowledged as one of the world's most eminent natural history photographers, "Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived" (Gemma Padley). He was pioneering and developed new techniques, especially the use of flash photography and automatic shutter release technology, which enabled him to photograph birds at night and freeze birds in flight for the first time. Famously, when just 28 he lost an eye to a tawny owl while climbing up to a hide in rural Wales, the event which inspired the ingeneous title of his autobiography "An Eye for a Bird", 1970. Over his exceptionally long career he photographed over 1,800 species, and his pictures have appeared in some 1,000 books, including the popular New Naturalist series, of which he was photographic editor. Hosking was not only a photographer of birds but also a highly knowledgeable ornithologist. Size: 8vo. Book. Seller Inventory # 035434
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