Field Guide to the Birds of Australia (Collins Pocket Guide) - Hardcover

A FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA [Inscribed by the author to Eric Hosking]

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Roy Doyle (illustrator). First Edition. 460 pp, colour plates throughout. Hardback binding near fine. Contents clean and tight, fine inscription by the author to Eric Hosking, "To Eric Hosking - with appreciation for showing the way to so many of us, Graham Pizzey 23/4/81". A near fine tight copy with a wonderful inscription. [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 ingenious 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. Inscribed by Author(s). Book. Artikel-Nr. 038909

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