Wild Wings; Adventures of a Camera-Hunter among the Larger Wild Birds of North America on Sea and Land

Abstract

DESPITE its somewhat pedantic title, this book is much above the average of works of the same general nature, and deserves a wide circulation, if only on account of the earnest plea made by its author that the camera may, at least to some extent, be. substituted for the shot-gun in our intercourse with birds. In this laudable endeavour he is supported by the President of the United States, who, after stating that wild-game shooting, under proper restrictions and regulations, must be considered legitimate so long as we breed domesticated animals for slaughter, observes that “there is altogether too much shooting, and if we can only get the camera in place of the gun and have the sportsman sunk somewhat in the naturalist and lover of wild things, the next generation will see an immense change for the better in. the life of our woods and waters.”

Wild Wings; Adventures of a Camera-Hunter among the Larger Wild Birds of North America on Sea and Land.

By H. K. Job. Pp. xxv + 341; illustrated. (London: A. Constable and Co., Ltd.; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mufflin and Co., 1905.) Price 10s. 6d. net.