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    Reference 2810 (943)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Scott, Peter (Photographs by Paul Queneau)
    Title WILD GEESE AND ESKIMOS: A Journal of the Perry River Expedition of 1949.
    Publishing Information London: Country Life Limited,1951.
    Description 1st Edition; 254pp, illustrated, coloured frontispiece, b/w plates, drawings in text, maps, map end papers. Original green cloth covers with gilt geese decoration to front cover and titling to spine, no dustjacket. The Perry River lies in the North-West territories of Canada includes references,eskimos,list of birds seen. "among the world's waterfowl - the ducks, geese and swans - there are several species which have become so greatly reduced in numbers that they face early extinction unless steps are taken at once to avert it. Much more needs to be discovered about the birds themselves before we know where, when and how best to take those steps. The beautiful little Ross's geese, whose nesting colonies were found for the first time in 1938, are among those which are threatened, for their world population is probably no more than 5,000, possibly much less. It was for this specific reason that the Perry River Expedition of 1949 was undertaken. The journal which follows is a daily record of two very happy summer months among the wild geese and the Eskimos." Shelfware, bumped, covers sunned, slight foxing mainly to page edges and prelims, contents clean. Good.
    Price £5.00
    Keywords qpolarq, arctic, polarbook, polar, S1-Arc
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