PETER SCOTT: PAINTER and NATURALIST. By Elspeth Huxley. With an Introduction by Sir David Attenborough.

1993 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppxx,361. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Green boards, spine titled and decorated in white.

"Son of the Antarctic explorer Captain Scott, [Peter Scott] fulfilled many times over his father's dying wish that he should become 'a strenuous man'. A championship-class skater, dinghy-racer and glider pilot as well as an accomplished painter, Scott's abiding passion was for wildlife. ...He gave up shooting to found the Wildfowl Trust [Slimbridge] and later co-founded the World Wildlife Fund. ...Behind Scott's charm and single-mided devotion to his chosen causes lay a complex character, driven by his father's legend and by an unconventional and dominating mother." Chapters include: Son of a legend; 'Here I am, send me'; Owls and Oundle; Cambridge and the Fens; Apprentice painter; Duck decoys and racing dinghies; Morning flight; Searching for redbreasted geese; HMS Broke; The Battle of the Narrow Seas; End of a marriage; The birth of the Wildfowl Trust; Travels in North America; Rescuing the ne-ne; Faraway look; The ocean of the sky; Tortoises, family life and Bewick's swans; The World Wildlife fund; Nessie and Antarctica; Saving the whales; The Wildfowl trust spreads its wings; No pot of gold in Arabia; Finale.