Search Results: Titles starting with M from Fieldfare Books

UK: Souvenir Press, 2015. Paperback. Very good/NO. 208 x 125 mm. NO. Noah Strycker has spent the last decade studying bird behaviour in some of the world s remotest places from a penguin colony in Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, the Australian outback, the Galápagos Islands and has observed almost 2,500 species of birds. Noah has come to understand that birds are lively, unpredictable individuals loaded with personality and, if you look closely enough, birds have human counterparts. From the homing instinct of pigeons (and the mystery of the pigeon equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle in eastern England), testing the turkey vulture s sense of smell with a deer carcass to the reason behind penguin s fear of water and lack of fear of humans, even the courtship rituals of Australia s winged Casanova, the bowerbird, by studying birds, we ultimately learn about ourselves. As we learn about birds, we gain insights into memory, relationships, game theory and the nature of intelligence itself.… Read More

Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1992-08-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. 12x9x0. Mallard Ducks are the most common waterfowl species in the Northern Hemisphere. The resilience and beauty of this popular bird soar from the pages of Mallards, a remarkable new book from renowned wildlife photographer Scott Nielsen. The cover has faded along the top and along the bottom is very worn. The Jacket has a tear on the front and a tiny piece missing on the back, worn around the edges and on the corners.

The Government Printer Lusaka, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A revised check list with keys, notes on distribution, range maps and summaries of breeding and ecological data. There are seven colour plates. There is a pen inscription inside and the cover is a little worn on the corners.

Brown, Prior, Anderson Pty Ltd, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This non technical handbook is build up a complete knowledge of the mammals of this state. There are splendid illustrations of each species.A brown strip is on the first and last page.

London: Jonathon Cape, 1954. Hardcover. Good/Good. This book is an account of the adventures and discoveries of the great biologists and anthropologists who, beginning with Darwin, have brought out of the dark obscurities of time the story of the evolution of mankind. There is slight foxing on the end pages and the cover has been price clipped. There's a small stain on the back of the Jacket.

Evans Brothers Ltd , 1970. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. As man learnt to produce food crops from the soil, his dependence on animals decreased. Man the hunter became man the master. Yet still the killing did not stop, this book looks at animals that have become extinct and those in danger of extinction. The cover has water damage.

Evans Brothers Ltd , 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. This book presents a telling history of man's relationship with his natural environment which began with his own fight for survival. This new direction to save animals from extinction springs from a new awareness of man's deep commitment to wildlife. The Jacket has a protective clear cover with several sticker marks, the cover is also torn slightly on the back.

Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, 1970-02-05. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The central point in this provoking study is that a zoo is by no means merely a business concerned with zoology as it still so often assumed; it is concerned more with human problems. Man is the only animal that keeps other animals in captivity and that is capable of domesticating wild animals. Without domestic animals the humans concentrated in large cities could not in fact exist, because these animals form the basis of there diet. This book is a fascinating read. The Jacket has been price clipped and has a clear protective cover.

London: Adam And Charles Black, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. The Mandarin has now become naturalised in parts of Britain and Mr Savage has had the good fortune to live in one of these. He has combined in this book patient research into the birds historic connection with Chinese art and literature and its behaviour and habitat preferences in Britain. The Jacket has been price clipped and is worn around the edges with a small tear on the front.

London: Collins, 1947. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The standard of achievement of British bird photographers is unsurpassed in the world, and it is a matter for wonder that a collection of the outstanding examples of their work has not taken shape before now. The spine is becoming a little loose and the cover a little faded on the edges.

London: Collins, 1947. Hardcover. Good. This book is a collection of out standing work of British Bird Photographers. What constitutes a masterpiece of bird photography is the rarity of the species. The cover is a little worn and faded around the edges

London: Christie Manson and Woods Ltd, 1981. Paperback. Very Good. This is a catalogue of Charles Tunnicliffe work with 63 illustrations, including 10 in colour. This sale took place Friday 15th May 1981.

Lutterworth Press, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. This book writes about the many interesting birds which meet us on our walks and rambles. There are 36 photographs included. The cover has slightly faded around the edges.

Gurney And Jackson, 1946. Good/Good. In this book of wide-ranging reminiscence, one is given an insight into the amount of study that each painting represents, for here are glimpses of some seventy years spent most lovingly in finding out. There is a pen inscription inside and there seems to be a page missing at the back. The Jacket has been price clipped and is worn around the edges.

UK: David & Charles, 1980. Hardcover. Good/Good. 222 x 148 mm. NO. The book covers four seasons from 1971-1974 that the Author spent with merlins, the smallest falcons found in Britain on or near their nest sites on moorland on either side of the border of which is now the Welsh county of Powys and the adjacent English counties.

Cassell And Company Ltd. Hardcover. Very Good. This book aims to present the story of a forgotten, fascinating region, unknown to most Mexicans, a land cut off by forbidding mountain ranges on one side and unexplored jungle on the other, linked to Mexico and to the outer world only by narrow mountain trails, a rickety railroad, and only in the last few years a tri-weekly airplane. The cover is a little worn one side of the spine.

Heinemann , 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. This is the most comprehensive study of bird migration ever published, and in its approach and documentation it is likely to appeal as much to amateur ornithologists as to readers expert in the field.The Jacket has been price clipped.

Oxford University Press, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. This book looks at the migration of birds between their Summer and Winter homes. Lines of Geese crossing the sky and Robins to our lawns, warbling of the Bluebird and other changes with the seasons.The page ends are rough cut and there is some foxing. The cover is a little worn around the edges.

Horace Cox, 1897. Amended. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The principal new points in the present volume deal with the cause and philosophy of Migration, the migratory movement in the Southern Hemisphere, and its important bearing upon the entire question of Avine Season Flight and Dispersal.There are three pen inscriptions inside and some foxing. The cover has a few marks on it.

Chapman And Hall, 1892. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The whole subject of Migration is so vast, so wide reaching, and so complicated, that it would be absurd to regard it as exhausted, and the present volume must be looked upon as a pioneer.There are foxing on the page ends and inside the cover and first page two pages of information have been stuck in.There is a pen inscription inside and the cover a little worn on the edges.