A Delight of Owls: African Owls Observed Tapa blanda - 2010

South Africa: Jacana Media, 2009. Book. Fine. Paperback. Inscribed By the Author. Improved Edition. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to Eric Hosking's son David as thanks for Eric's forward for the first edtiion now unchanged. 175 pages; numerous colour photographic illustrations. Covers fine. Contents clean and tight, inscribed and signed. A fine copy with an interesting provenance. 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… Leer más