A CAMERA IN ANTARCTICA [From the Library of Eric Hosking]
by Saunders, Alfred
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Winchester Publications Ltd. Book. Illus. by Alfred Saunders. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 160 pages; 72 b/w photographic illustrations. Original dust jacket very good with a little rubbing to top and bottom of the spine and edges, price clipped. Hard back binding near fine, unmarked. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, superb plate from the library of Eric Hosking, photographer. A very good copy in a very good jacket. [From the library of Eric Hosking] [Eric Hosking OBE, Hon FRPS, FBIPP (1909-1991) was widely acknowledged as one of the world's most eminent natural history photographers, "Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived" (Gemma Padley). He was pioneering and developed new techniques, especially the use of flash photography and automatic shutter release technology, which enabled him to photograph birds at night and freeze birds in flight for the first time. Famously, when just 28 he lost an eye to a tawny owl while climbing up to a hide in rural Wales, the event which inspired the ingeneous title of his autobiography "An Eye for a Bird", 1970. Over his exceptionally long career he photographed over 1,800 species, and his pictures have appeared in some 1,000 books, including the popular New Naturalist series, of which he was photographic editor. Hosking was not only a photographer of birds but also a highly knowledgeable ornithologist.].
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- Loe Books (GB)
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- Title
- A CAMERA IN ANTARCTICA [From the Library of Eric Hosking]
- Author
- Saunders, Alfred
- Illustrator
- Alfred Saunders
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Winchester Publications Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- 8vo
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