ISBN: 9780727019424 - in quest of bower birds (10 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Original red boards, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous (full page) colour photographs, 4to.; Remnants of glue on bottom flaps (removed price tag).

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. very slight edge wear cover edges, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: slight edge wear, some scuffing. Due to weight extra may apply to any quoted postage Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover/gebunden. Condizione: gut. 1. Auflage. Ohne Schutzumschlag, der Einband ist an den Kanten etwas berieben. In englischer Sprache. 108 S. pages. 28,5 x 21,5 cm.

Hardback. 1994. First edition. A near fine copy only marked by light edge rubbing. The d/w is very good.

Condizione: Good. Light wear to the extremities of the dust jacket. Some marks and scratches to both sides. Content clean and readable.

hard cover with dust jacket. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st edition. Illustrated with photographs in colour and black and white, maps. 29 cm. 108 pages VG/VG. Very good book in very good dust jacket with light shelf wear and edge wear, laminate lifting a little lower rear, signed by the author on front endpaper. Signed by author.…

Quarto,108 pp.,colour photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. Norman Chaffer was an excellent amateur ornithologist and photographer.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Near Fine. Hardcover in fine condition, light shelf wear to the dust jacket. Color photographs.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> The world of Australian ornithology has long awaited Norman Chaffer's account of the highlights from his sixty-year investigation and study of bowerbirds in the wild. These extraordinary birds-unique to the Australian region-first captured his attention in 1923 when as a young naturalist he was shown the handiwork of some Satin Bowerbirds. The painstaking and skilled process of filming bowerbirds behaviour and environment made Norman Chaffer a renowned master of the art of bird photography and it also makes an absorbing story. In a delightful blend of personal recollection and scientific observation, Norman Chaffer now recalls many outback expeditions in search of various bowerbird species in their native haunts, some of which he was the first to investigate and photograph. His detailed studies give fascinating insights into the remarkable bowers built and decorated by the male birds as stores for collections of display objects-sometimes totalling thousands of items-and as courtship stations to which they entice th.…