THE CHILDREN'S BOOK OF TRACKS AND TRACKING: A BOOK FOR BOY SCOUTS, GIRL GUIDES AND EVERY LOVER OF WOODCRAFT. By H. Mortimer Batten.

(1961) 1961 reprint. Small 8vo (132 x 199mm). Pp95. B/w frontispiece by Warwick Reynolds, b/w illustrations of tracks. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

"Here is a little manual which every Boy Scout, Girl Guide and lover of woodcraft should possess. This renowned authority on the ways of wild creatures shows his readers that the science of sign-reading merely begins with the ability to identify the tracks of certain wild animals. One must know the animals themselves in order to read their signs aright. Accordingly, the author describes briefly the habits and life-stories of the animals we are most likely to encounter - given eyes to see and ears to hear - in the British countryside." Chapters include: The fox; The badger; The otter; The stoat and the weasel; The hedgehog or urchin; The squirrel; Deer; The hare; The rabbit; The house rat; The water-rat or water-vole; Prints from other trails. Chambers's Nature Series.