Much motoring, walking, climbing, sitting, waiting, staring, wondering, deciding, writing, reading, persisting, and thus much time with much patience, much enthusiasm, were required for the determination behind this book – an announcement leaflet states it in part with “… twelve years of field work, two land-Rovers, hundreds of thousands of kilometres of bush roads, nine cameras and countles ... (read more)
Jack Jones
A person with competence and enthusiasm ‘in the field’ for this or that subject of natural history has ready opportunity to get with it in unusual haunts. Birds seem to be an obsession with such opportunity – the competent enthusiast has an instinctive reaction to give attention, and some write books about it.
The competence can range from specialised to general, and be used in manners with ... (read more)