LIFE ON THE WING: ADVENTURES WITH BIRDS OF PREY. By David Taylor Moran.

(1996) 1997 2nd printing. Folio (222 x 286mm). Ppxviii,251. Colour plates by George Lodge, D.M. Reid-Henry and others, colour photographs. Green faux leather boards, upper board titled in gilt with gilt hooded falcon motif, spine titled in gilt.

David Moran recounts his adventures in falconry in North America, with many excellent paintings and illustrations. "Original works by the well-known English masters G.E. Lodge and D.M. Reid-Henry, some published here for the first time, will please the eye of the naturalist who loves fine art - as will the numerous paintings and photographs contributed by outstanding American wildlife artists." Chapters include; The lesson of the Arctic; Introduction - on hawks and hawking, Notes on training, A day when things went right; Of goshawks wild and tame; A red-tail enters our lives; Adventures with Cooper's hawks; Three fine prairie falcons; A trio of peregrines; A tale of two owls; Of grouse, gyrfalcons and dogs. The limitation of this 1997 2nd printing is unstated, however, it was probably in the region of 1,000 copies.