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By Denis Summers-Smith

ISBN-10: 1408137836

ISBN-13: 9781408137833

Denis Summers-Smith first took up the learn of the home Sparrow in 1947, pondering that the problems of go back and forth in post-war Britain could top go well with the examine of a species regularly shut to hand. the standard apartment Sparrow, universal far and wide, was once strangely poorly researched and his paintings quickly supplied attention-grabbing insights into this winning and adaptable little chook. As new possibilities to commute spread out, his curiosity blossomed to absorb the genus Passer as a complete. His travels could eventually bring about his research of all yet one workforce, came across merely within the private Turkestan, and to the booklet of his authoritative monograph on sparrows in 1988.

While that booklet provided his wisdom of sparrow biology, this quantity tells the opposite, human, facet of the story. His wry descriptions of the tribulations and unforeseen pleasures of a visitor on 4 continents, from the Himalayas and Thailand, to Africa and the Americas (with a very good few islands in among) are interspersed with observations and speculations at the biology of sparrows in a wide selection of habitats. in every single place neighborhood officers and birdwatchers warmed to the eccentric Scot in pursuit of the little birds that no-one notices yet which so usually make their houses beside us.

The author's personal photos and pleasant cartoons by way of Euan Dunn additional paint the image of this lifelong search.

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