MOUNTAIN WILDLIFE. By Richard Perry.

1981 1st edition. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Pp202. B/w photograph plates, bibliography. Black boards, spine titled in gilt.

This is a wide ranging but quite detailed introduction to mountain wildlife around the world, and the environments which the wildlife has to contend with. Chapters include: The uplands of Britain; The highlands of Scotland; The European mountains; Choughs and lammergeiers; Marmots; Chamois and ibex; The ravaged mountains of Ethiopia; The markhor of the Hindu Kush; The haymakers; The great sheep of the Pamirs; Blue sheep and snow leopards; Tahr and tigers in the Himalaya; Birds in the Himalaya; Yetis - apes or hominids?; Life on the ultimate summits; Buddhism and wildlife; Kiang, chiru and yaks on the Chang-Tang; The North-American bighorns; Rocky-Mountain goats; Mountain grizzlies; The doomed condors; The Andean cloud-forest and Puna; animals of the high Andes; Birds of the high Andean lakes and rivers. The unique feature of Richard Perry's book has to be the chapter on the yeti; this is a completely sane and objective assembling of hominid information from various periods of history up to the present, both sides of the Himalayas, Mongolia and China.