DEER OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND: THEIR ORIGINS AND DISTRIBUTION. By Peter Carne.

2000 1st edition. 4to (192 x 252mm). Pp208. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations, maps, bibliography. Cream boards, spine titled in gilt.

The first in-depth account of the history and distribution of British deer for almost forty years. Chapters include: The deer and their habitat - red deer, roe deer, fallow deer, sika deer, Reeve's muntjac, Chinese water deer, other species; The deer of central southern England - Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire; The deer of Greater London and south-east England - Greater London, Surrey and Kent, Sussex; The deer of south-west England - Somerset, devon and Cornwall, Gloucestershire; The deer of the west and north Midlands, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Warwickshire, the West Midlands, the Welsh Marches, Staffordshire; The deer of the south and east Midlands - Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Rutland, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire; The deer of northern England and the Isle of Man - Lancashire and Yorkshire, Cumbria, Northumbria, Isle of Man; The deer of Wales; The deer of southern Scotland; The deer of central and northern Scotland; The deer of the Scottish islands; The deer of Ireland; Deer farming; Close seasons.