Item #12298 The borders and beyond. Arctic ... cheviot ... tropic. ABEL CHAPMAN.
The borders and beyond. Arctic ... cheviot ... tropic.

The borders and beyond. Arctic ... cheviot ... tropic.

London: Gurney and Jackson, 1924. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxi-[xxii], 489-[492]; with 38 plates 17 in color (showing 19 illus.) of birds by W.H. Riddell, numerous illus. and diagrams in the text; slight wear at corners but generally a fine, bright copy in original green cloth gilt, t.e.g. This book ""epitomizes in part the experiences of a life-time devoted to the direct study of nature in her wilder aspects... The author's main objective [is] understanding those reclusive types of Creation which most bitterly resent human intrusion on their privacy, or those whose remote and inhospitable haunts are ever the least congenial"" (Preface). Item #12298

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