Mike Read Jake Allsop THE BARN OWL Double Signed
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Mike Read Jake Allsop THE BARN OWL Double Signed
First UK edition, first print hardback of THE BARN OWL by Mike Read and Jake Allsop, published by Blandford Book - Cassell Plc., London, in 1994. The authors' presentation inscriptions and signatures are on the title page.The book is in very good condition (Clean light brown cloth boards with gold lettering on the spine) with only minor shelf wear to the glossy pictorial dust jacket which is not price clipped. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
"Beak set in a disk-like face, Character of all the race."
It is hard ro remain indifferent to owls, for they provoke in us adjectives unlikely to be used for any other bird. Whether it is the familiar, wise and friendly image from childhood stories or the average adult reactions - finding them fascinating, majestic and ethereal or weird and 'spooky' - we know and recognize owls. Above all, it is the barn owl, once seen or heard, which is never forgotten; the silently flying, pale nocturnal bird of prey, likely to cause alarm with its sudden outlandish call in the dark.
This study of Tyto alba, the barn owl provides an intriguing and revealing insight into the life of a very special and increasingly rare bird of prey. The Barn Owl describes and illustrates, with a wealth of original colour photography, every aspect of this bird's life; it is a book that is destined to become a major addition to ornithological literature. All the nobility and the mystery of this avian hunter of the night are shown within these pages.
The authors have studied the barn owl in all seasons and in all its moods - whether playful, gentle or quarrelsome, with many hours of watchful nights leading to a great knowledge of, and the ability to photograph, the bird's full life-cycle.
Mike Read is a professional wildlife photographer with a speciality in ornithology. His photographs are used in a variety of books, magazines, calendars and exhibitions. His photographs and observations were combined with Jake Allsop's text in their previous Blandford book The Robin.
Jake Allsop is a professional writer of textbooks and books of short stories, with a life long interest in ornithology. As a qualified ringer for the BTO, he has carried out many bird migration studies. He is secretary of the Golden Oriole Study Group and has been actively invovled in fenland conservation since becoming a Cambridgeshire resident. The Robin was his first book collaboration with Mike Read.
128 pages. Illustrated with numerous colour photographs and a map within the text.
SBN: 0 7137 2349 1
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