A Guide To Watching Wild Life: How To Watch, Where To Watch, When To Watch
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
For anyone who has ever stood at the edge of a woodland at dusk and felt the electric thrill of a wild creature passing unseen just yards away, A Guide to Watching Wild Life by David Stephen is the definitive companion to transforming those fleeting moments into rich, rewarding encounters. This authoritative and practical handbook instructs the aspiring naturalist in the essential arts of fieldcraft — detailing not only how to watch, but precisely where and when to position oneself for the best chance of observing Britain's diverse fauna in its natural habitat. Stephen, one of Scotland's most celebrated wildlife writers and observers, brings decades of hard-won experience to every page, distilling a lifetime spent among foxes, deer, birds, and otters into clear, accessible guidance that is equally suited to the complete beginner and the seasoned country-walker. Beyond its practical instruction, the work carries the quiet authority of a man who views the natural world with both scientific rigour and genuine affection, a combination that elevates it well above a mere how-to manual. Stephen's prose is lucid and warmly evocative, painting vivid pictures of the countryside at its most alive — at first light, deep in winter frost, or beneath a harvest moon — while never losing sight of the practical goal. Readers who follow his counsel will find themselves not merely observers of the wild, but participants in it, and may never look at a hedgerow, a riverbank, or a woodland clearing in quite the same way again.
Author: David Stephen
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969
Genre: Natural history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
For anyone who has ever stood at the edge of a woodland at dusk and felt the electric thrill of a wild creature passing unseen just yards away, A Guide to Watching Wild Life by David Stephen is the definitive companion to transforming those fleeting moments into rich, rewarding encounters. This authoritative and practical handbook instructs the aspiring naturalist in the essential arts of fieldcraft — detailing not only how to watch, but precisely where and when to position oneself for the best chance of observing Britain's diverse fauna in its natural habitat. Stephen, one of Scotland's most celebrated wildlife writers and observers, brings decades of hard-won experience to every page, distilling a lifetime spent among foxes, deer, birds, and otters into clear, accessible guidance that is equally suited to the complete beginner and the seasoned country-walker. Beyond its practical instruction, the work carries the quiet authority of a man who views the natural world with both scientific rigour and genuine affection, a combination that elevates it well above a mere how-to manual. Stephen's prose is lucid and warmly evocative, painting vivid pictures of the countryside at its most alive — at first light, deep in winter frost, or beneath a harvest moon — while never losing sight of the practical goal. Readers who follow his counsel will find themselves not merely observers of the wild, but participants in it, and may never look at a hedgerow, a riverbank, or a woodland clearing in quite the same way again.