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A NATURALIST ON LINDISFARNE From the Library of Eric Hosking
1946038915London: Lindsay Drummond 1946. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo 14 x 20cm. pp 248 b/w photos. folding map to the rear. Original dust jacket some general wear chipped to top of the spine and dust soiling now protected in a removable sleeve. Green cloth boards gilt to the spine and vignette to front board very good. Contents clean and tight original endpapers unmarked the bookplate of Eric Hosking to the front pastedown no foxing. A very good internally very clean copy with an interesting provenance and rare with a jacket. 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 1800 species and his pictures have appeared in some 1000 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. Lindsay Drummond Hardcover
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