TRAVEL DIARIES OF A NATURALIST. I: AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, NEW GUINEA, AFRICA, THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, ANTARCTICA AND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS. By Sir Peter Scott. Edited by Miranda Weston-Smith.

1983 1st edition. Large 8vo (173 x 248mm). Pp287. Colour and b/w photographs, colour paintings and sketches. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

Observations, sketches and paintings from thirty years of travelling by this noted naturalist. This is Volume I of a series of three, each giving Scott's account of a different part of the world. In this case, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Africa, The Galapagos Islands, Antarctica and the Falkland Islands