Crowdfunding for a curlew
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1affle
I like the books that this small, independent publisher produces, so I've signed up for this rather appealing project:
http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/orison-for-a-curlew/
Some of the publisher's list is noted in this Publisher Series; I have a dozen and a half:
http://www.librarything.com/publisherseries/Little+Toller
http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/orison-for-a-curlew/
Some of the publisher's list is noted in this Publisher Series; I have a dozen and a half:
http://www.librarything.com/publisherseries/Little+Toller
2chrisharpe
Wow, SbC has not been seen since 2001, so this is quite a challenge! Are you going? Loved Oliver Rackham's The Ash Tree.
3affle
>2 chrisharpe:
Sadly no, no trip to Iran for me - at least not curlew-hunting - just a hand-bound book when it comes. The crowdfunding raised its initial target very quickly. Agreed about the Rackham book, it's a very good reason why this little publisher deserves to thrive.
Sadly no, no trip to Iran for me - at least not curlew-hunting - just a hand-bound book when it comes. The crowdfunding raised its initial target very quickly. Agreed about the Rackham book, it's a very good reason why this little publisher deserves to thrive.
4chrisharpe
The book is out: http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/is-the-slender-billed-curlew-already-extinct/ . Was it in your Christmas stocking affle?
5chrisharpe
I see another review in the The Guardian, but curiously the photograph captioned "Slender-billed Curlew" is a Whimbrel.
6elenchus
Just found this thread today. The book looks impressive, hoping affle will be able to post a commentary soon!
7affle
>4 chrisharpe:,>5 chrisharpe: Thanks for the links, Chris; there was a much more lukewarm review in the Times - no link, paywall. I don't suppose the Guardian's photolibrary runs to many pictures of a Slender-billed Curlew, and I didn't doubt your identification of what they did have as a Whimbrel, but as I wasn't sure just how like a Whimbrel the SbC is/was, I looked at the pictures in my BWP, which certainly shows the SbC as a much paler bird, like Beatrice Forshall's illustration used by the Speccy.
The book did arrive in time for Christmas, but as I haven't read it yet (>6 elenchus: I will comment when I have), the best bit has been the signed print I subscribed for, which has framed up very nicely. It's of a curlew, speaking in family not specific terms, in shades of grey like the book illustrations - the coloured picture referred to above doesn't appear in or on the book, which is a bit odd. The book is a decent enough production, with some golden curlews stamped into the cloth binding, but not very special: the standard £12 version would be the one to have, I imagine.
The book did arrive in time for Christmas, but as I haven't read it yet (>6 elenchus: I will comment when I have), the best bit has been the signed print I subscribed for, which has framed up very nicely. It's of a curlew, speaking in family not specific terms, in shades of grey like the book illustrations - the coloured picture referred to above doesn't appear in or on the book, which is a bit odd. The book is a decent enough production, with some golden curlews stamped into the cloth binding, but not very special: the standard £12 version would be the one to have, I imagine.
8chrisharpe
Thanks for the information affle. I would be interested to hear what you think of the book. Even as curlews go SbC is (was?) a very elegant bird, aptly-named and with neat black spots on the underparts and, sure enough, there are not too many photos - no excuse for incorrect labelling if they did not use one though. Let's hope our own Eurasian Curlew does not go the same way - its conservation status has deteriorated markedly and it is now reckoned to be the UK's most threatened bird species and doing only slightly better in the rest of Europe.