Pirates and Predators. The Piratical and Predatory Habits of Birds.
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1959. [Ornithology] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 21cm), pp.x; 230. Illustrated with eighteen colour plates and twenty monochrome plates. Bound in publisher's red cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper priced 70/-. Contents clean, no inscriptions, jacket gently worn to extremities. Near fine. Colonel Richard Henry Meinertzhagen, CBE, DSO (1878-1967). Soldier, intelligence officer and ornithologist, serving as chief of British Military Intelligence for the East African campaign at Nairobi, Kenya. Here he describes birds as predators, hunters and killers, and describes their ability to make use of the other animals in their environment. Meinertzhagen's writing was greatly admired by the thriller writer Ian Fleming. Item #73964
Gilbert, p.631-2.
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