"Bird Life at Home and Abroad" is a wonderful little volume full of
anecdotes and observations related to bird watching across the globe.
These musings and recollections are highly readable and interesting, and
are not to be missed by fans of ornithology or nature writing. Contents
include: "The Flamingo in France", "Provence in Autumn", "The Mere",
"The Shore", "Hautes-Pyrénées", "Basses-Pyrénées", "In the Bay of
Biscay", "The Shetlands", "Boxie Hill", "The Cliffs", "Moor and Loch",
"Holland", "The Polder", "Dune and Marsh", "An Unattractive Bird-Haunt",
"An Unattractive Bird-Haunt", etc. Thomas Coward (1867 - 1933) was an
English ornithologist and amateur astronomer. He wrote on natural
history, local history and Cheshire for a number of publications and
books. Other notable works by this author include: "The Vertebrate Fauna
of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay" (1910), "The Migration of Birds" (1912),
and "Bird Haunts and Nature Memories" (1922). Many vintage books such as
this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that
we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern,
high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new
introduction and biography of the author.