Author: BRATBY, MICHAEL AND SCOTT, PETER
Title: THROUGH THE AIR. Adventures With Wild Fowl and Small-Boat Sailing.
Description: London. Country Life Ltd., 1941., First edition, published Nov. 1941. Text is by Michael Bratby, a friend of Peter Scott, and is based on broadcasts he made to introduce radio listeners to wildfowl, and talks he gave every autumn when he described the arrival of 6 kinds of wild geese on a nearby estuary. 127 pages. Contents near fine, but slightly foxed at front & back. On half-title page is a bookplate without any name or inscription. (from a book token designed by John Nash.) Illustrated with 21 full page b./w. photographs and b./w. drawings by Peter Scott. No d./w. Cover slightly worn & bumped on corners, faint mark on back, o./w. near fine. 1941

Keywords: Dais1942 birds wildfowl geese sailing dinghy Iceland shelducks herons


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