RichardAdams Non-Fiction Books
Describes the animals, birds, trees, and flowers that the amateur naturalist is likely to encounter in each season.
Richard Adams is best remembered for writing Watership Down, this is A lovely title with only light shelf wear to covers, internally in very good condition, colour illustrations throughout, Covers illustrated by David Goddard
The Antarctic is the least explored area on earth, and the most densely populated with wildlife - whales, seals, dolphins, penguins, albatrosses and many other birds and animals. A natrual sanctuary of spectacular beauty, created and preserved by the sheer extremity of its climate, it has proved the perfect subject for the combined talents of the novelist Richard Adams and the natrualist Ronald Lockley who, in this book, describe their experiences on their voyage aboard the Lindblad Explorer through the Antarctic - down from Cape Horn and up to New Zealand. With the aid of a superb selection of colour and black-and-white photographs by Peter Hirst-Smith, they have produced a unique and highly personal record of a region that may soon be in danger. - from the inside cover.
First edition hardcover, signed by the author and illustraor, with clipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Light creasing to the jacket edges, a few small marks to the pageblock, and board corners and spine ends are bumped. The pages, plates and text are clear and unmarked throughout. LW
First volume of the autobiography of Richard Adams covering his early life in Taunton, undergraduate days at Oxford and experiences across Omagh, Palestine, Jerusalem, Egypt, Normandy, Denmark, Singapore and Bombay between 1940 and 1947. The account ends with Adams giving Latin tuition to the girl next-door who became his future wife. Adams' early years should be of particular interest to any devotee of the novels since they concern a plethora of incidents which first fired his enthusiasm for nature. The book may be of particular interest to anyone interested in the social history of the period from 1920 to the aftermath of World War II.
