Search Results: Titles starting with J from Fieldfare Books

Debretts Peerage, 1986-11-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 11x8x1. In this book the Author discusses this fascinating species as seen through the eyes of British and European game shooters, past and present. It talks about its secretive breeding habits, its curious spring display flights at dusk and dawn, and the airlifting of woodcock chicks by the adult birds. The cover has a small sticker inside.

UK: Langford Press, 2012-08-15. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Davis, John [Illustrator]. NO. As a celebration of Britain's grasslands you see the power of grasslands with their classic birds, insects and mammals and why preserving the habitat is essential. Where would our lapwing and redshank be without real grassland compared to the silage fields cutting them up before they have chance to breed. Each painting tells a story with Richard giving details about the habitat. You can find anything from the Choughs on the Great Orme in Wales to Black Grouse in Teesdale, County Durham not forgetting the Machair up in the Isles with its Golden plover and Dunlin.Richard Jefferson is a real grassland guru working for Natural England as their senior grasslands specialist. He is an all round naturalist and has also worked on a book `Grasslands in Europe of High Nature Value'. John Davis, on the other hand, has spent `hours scribbling'! Well this work is not scribbling and he has certainly gone on… Read More

Oxford University Press, 1982-08-19. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. John Clare has been described as the finest Poet. His keen observation of birds around him in his native Northamptonshire combined with his natural poetic gifts to produce unique and vivid descriptions of landscape and bird life, several of which are published for the first time. There is a tiny tear on the back of the jacket.

George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1936. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The chapters of this book have been arranged according to the seasons. Each section contains an account of some of the events the young bird watcher may expect to see month by month.There is a pen mark inside and some foxing to the end paper and the page ends.The cover has some small stains on it and faded on the spine.

London: Country Life Ltd, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. This is a book about Monkeys Apes, Old World Monkeys and those very distant animals the Lemurs. This looks at their life and intelligence amongst many other things. There is slight foxing to the end pages.