Birds of the Antarctic by Edward Wilson and Brian Roberts (editor)

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to foredges. Previous owner has signed insife front cover. Sunning to inside preliminary blank page. Dust jacket is in good condition with foxing to edges. Now in protective cover. Interior and binding are still very good. Quarto size large book.

Edward Wilson (1872-1912) was a member of Scott's two Antarctic expeditions, as a zoologist and medical officer and on his second expedition, he was chief scientist. He had a genius for detailed recording in his illustrations.

Brian Roberts has assembled a selection of more than 300 of these remarkable drawings and paintings. There are 60 pages of colour and 42 pages of monochrome illustrations. They are of great ornithological interest since these illustrations were the first ever sketched or painted of these birds in their natural habitat. There are detailed notes on the drawing and related extracts from Wilson's diaries.

The Antarctic bird images are reproduced from the originals in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, UK.