A Thousand Geese
- Publisher : Collins
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : col frontis, b/w photos, maps, text illus
Description:
First edition, first impression. The story of an expedition on horse-back up Iceland's greatest river to the great central ice-cap, to study the pink-footed goose and other birds of the tundra meadows. Led by Peter Scott the Severn Wildfowl Trust Expedition to the Hofsjökull in 1951 not only discovered the principal breeding ground of the pinkfoot in an oasis in the central desert of Iceland, but succeeded in catching and marking no less than 1151 geese and goslings.
Condition
8vo, orig. cloth. Endpapers foxed, occasional spotting to text. Vg in d/w (small chip to head of spine; some foxing to rear panel and inner flaps, spine browned; in clear, removable protective sleeve).