Albatross: Elusive Mariners of the Southern Ocean de Aleks Terauds and Fiona Stewart - 2005

Sydney: Reed New Holland, 2005. 175 pp, num photographs by author(most col), together with historic illustrations from publications such as Gould's The Birds of Australia and those created specially for this book, maps, tables, bibliography, index, illustrated end-papers. Near new. Blue decorative cloth in wrapper. The book tells the life histories of each of the five species of Albatross that breed in Australian waters as well as describing the islands on which they live and outlining the efforts being made to conserve them. It also looks at the history of human involvement in Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean -- whaling, sealing, long-line fishing for Tuna and Patagonian Toothfish, trawling, and the impact of feral animals– and reveals what life is like for researchers on the islands today. . First edition.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to.