Say Goodbye To The Cuckoo.
£12.00
Publisher
John Murray.
Place
London
Date
2009
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8 x 6.25 inches. ix + [i] + 243 pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper. Slight browning of top and fore edge, but otherwise a fine copy. Illustrated by chapter heading bird vignettes. Decorated by feather vignettes in text. Account of Britain's migratory birds, including spring arrivals like cuckoos, swallows, nightingales and flycatchers and a lament for their decreasing arrival numbers. Michael McCarthy (b.c.1947) is an environmental journalist, natural history writer and ornithologist.
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