The Charm of Birds by Sir Edward Grey (1 Viewer)

[Mr_K]

Hello.
I'm thinking about buying the book. Can anyone post some excerpts? I'd like to read a little of it first. Thank you.

 

[John Cantelo]

Sir Edward Grey's book The Charm of Birds was an Edwardian bestseller so can often be found in secondhand bookshops very cheaply but I'm afraid I've never read it and indeed it seems rarely read today. Sir Edward Grey (or Lord Grey of Fallodon as he later became) was a politician and statesman famously known for his comment in 1914 that ‘The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime’. I believe much of The Charm of Birds concerns his observations around Itchen Abbas (near Winchester) in Hampshire. He was married to Frances Dorothy Widdrington who was the great-niece of Captain Samuel Cook the man who discovered Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopica cooki) in Spain.

 

[Mono]

It is long out of copyright and the full text is available online.

The Charm Of Birds : Grey Viscount : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.209694dc.contributor.author: Grey Viscountdc.contributor.other: Gibbings Robertdc.date.accessioned:...

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[Pinewood]

Hello,

An old book with wonderful illustrations is Woodpeckers by Fannie Hardy Eckstrom from 1905. It includes colour plates of American woodpeckers by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, an eminent ornithological illustrator.

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Arthur