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The Birds of Brewery Creek by MacDonald, Malcolm
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$11.95
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Book description: Oxford University Press, 1947 Near-Fine condition HC, no DJ. Crisp, clean, tight, all pages superb, trace of shelfwear to boards only. Short gift inscription on free front endpaper, dated 1947. 334 pages including index. - A wonderful vintage book for birdwatchers, naturalists and local historians in the Ottawa Valley area. The author was a former UK High Commissioner to Canada. This book is magnificently illustrated with 23 photographic plates by Dr. Arthur A. Allen and W.V. Crich F.R.P.S. (includes frontispiece, seven plates in color). The author describes the birds he saw during one full year at Brewery Creek - which was very wild at the time, and is now a mecca for Ottawa bird-watchers. It is only a mile or so from the center of Canada's capital city, and enters the Ottawa River opposite the Ottawa residence of the High Commissioner in Rockcliffe Park. More than 170 species of birds are found in this oasis of nature within the city of Ottawa. . Hard Cover.
- Bookseller: Bruce McLeod
 (CA)
- Bookseller Inventory #: 007101
- Format/binding: Hardcover
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Date published: 1947
- Keywords: bird Birds Canada Canadian Ottawa Valley Birdwatching ornithology Art Birder Birding Dr. Arthur A. Allen and W.V. Crich F.R.P.S. River Rockcliffee Park nature City of
- Subjects:
NATURE / Animals;
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