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BIRDS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA Inscribed by the author to Eric Hosking
1983rif. 038907London: Macmillan 1983. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Inscribed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo. pp 461Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Covers near fine with minimal wear only. Contents clean and tight inscribed and signed by the author to Eric and Dorothy Hosking in 1987 on the half title please see image. otherwise unmarked. A near fine copy with a good provenance. Eric Hosking OBE Hon FRPS FBIPP 1909-1991 was widely acknowledged as one of the world's most eminent natural history photographers "Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived" Gemma Padley. He was pioneering and developed new techniques especially the use of flash photography and automatic shutter release technology which enabled him to photograph birds at night and freeze birds in flight for the first time. Famously when just 28 he lost an eye to a tawny owl while climbing up to a hide in rural Wales the event which inspired the ingenious title of his autobiography "An Eye for a Bird" 1970. Over his exceptionally long career he photographed over 1800 species and his pictures have appeared in some 1000 books including the popular New Naturalist series of which he was photographic editor. Hosking was not only a photographer of birds but also a highly knowledgeable ornithologist. Kenneth Newman co-authored the large work on the Birds of Africa published by Academic Press. Macmillan Paperback
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