Nature Detective de Hugh Falkus - 1978-11

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1979. Second Impression. Hard Cover. 4to 0575025026 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Colour & b/w photographs. 254 pages clean and tight. "Nature detective work, the reading of animal tracks and signs, is a skill that must have been second nature to early man, but is now almost entirely forgotten. And yet, for any person of any age who has any interest whatever in wildlife, tracking can become an absorbing pastime. "Nearly everywhere in the countryside there are stories to be read-if we have eyes to see, and use our intelligence to interpret what we see. Moorland and mountainside, common land, fells, sand dunes, sea shore and estuary, fields and hedgerows, lakeside, river and stream, even the garden at home, offer unlimited opportunities for nature detective work. There are tell-tale signs on plants, bushes, rocks, branches and the bark of trees. In wet grass,… Leer más

Victor Gallancz, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book is brown and very nice. Dust jacket has been price slipped and has a slight bit of edgewear otherwise very good.