1975 1st edition. Univ of Californi Press. Berkley, California. Ppxii,184. B/w photographs & illustrations, bibliography. Blue cloth. Boards bowed. Good-plus in torn, price-clipped dust-wrapper.
Notes: "This is the story of the world's first widespread conservation movement. A century ago there was an enormous demand for ...feathers to be used in trimming women's hats... Some bird species became regionally extinct and many others were endangered. Then came the movement ...for the conservation of non-game birds. Ornithologists, nature writers, clergymen, and socially prominent people on both sides of the Atlantic campaigned agains feather wearing". This movement gave birth to both the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Audubon Society and was responsible for initiating bird protection legislation on both sides of the Atlantic. Robin Doughty examines the fashion and the movement opposing it in great detail, as well as discussing related subjects of interest such as efforts made to restore the position of some of the species threatened by the feather trade.
