- 1980 edition. 140 pages
- Published by University of Minnesota Press, USA
- Hardcover with dust jacket. Bluey, green boards. Approx A4 size book.
- Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Some foxing to end papers. Small owner stamp on free front end paper.
The adventures of an artist/ornithologist on a lonely outcrop in the far South Atlantic. Indexed and Illustrated.
Few maps show the location of Bird Island - a lonely outcop in the South Georgia group where Antarctic waters push against the Atlantic east of Cape Horn. Its forbidding flanks invite few human visitors. But for those who reach its shores there are rich rewards.
Ornithologist David Parmelee was one of the fortunate. Nowhere in the bird world had he seen anything to match the incredible numbers and unusual gathering of birds on this teem speck of land. A quarter million penguins on Macaroni Point, the enormous wandering albatross, petrels, skaus, pintails, pipits, and shags, as wellas nearly 80,000 feocious fur seals, all inhabit Bird Island.
Professor Parmelee, a skilled artist as well as a scientist-explorer, spent six weeks on the island as the guest of a British scientific survey team. His story combines careful field observation with the excitement of exploration.
Bird Island in Antarctic Waters is illustrated with the author's drawings, paintings and photographs, which, in colour and black and white, capture the wildlife and scenery of a fascinating part of the world.
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