Author: Seton Gordon
Title: The Land of the Hills and the Glens; the Charm of Skye
Description: London, Cassell and Company, 1920-1929. First edition. Cloth. The first editions of two 1920s studies of Scotland by Scottish naturalist Seton Gordon. The first volume present here is Gordon's 1920 work 'The Land of the Hills and Glens; Wild Life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides', illustrated with fifty-seven photographic images taken by the author. Collated, complete.Gordon provides chapters on eagles, the arctic skua, hill buzzards, wild swans and the red-necked phalarope.The second work present is the first edition of Gordon's 1929 study 'The Charm of Skye: The Winged Isle', illustrated with four colour plates by Finlay Mackinnon, and with further vignette and photographic images. Collated, complete.The author discusses Loch Coruisk, Dunvegan, Tallisker, the Quarang, and the fairy lore of the island. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Bumping to spine head and tail. Light marks to 'Skye' spine. Boards bright. Front free endpaper of 'Hills and Glens' removed, with hinges strained but holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with light spotting throughout 'Hills and Glens', and 'Skye' pages clean. Very Good . Ill.: Seton Gordon; Finlay Mackinnon. Very Good .

Keywords: skye scottish islands birds ornithology scottish islands Seton Gordon; Finlay Mackinnon


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