The Golden Eagle: King of Birds

First edition. Good hardcover in good dust jacket. Foxing on top page edges and top edge of DJ. DJ is price-clipped and has some chips and tears.

This is a distillation of many years' study of golden eagles in Scotland by Seton Gordon, a noted authority on the bird. Chapters include: The golden eagle in the British Isles; The golden eagle in winter; The golden eagle in falconry; The eyrie and nesting habits; Food of the golden eagle; Flight of the golden eagle; The golden eagle's enemies - at home and abroad; A tree eyrie; A rock eyrie; Eight years' observations at a golden eagle eyrie, part I; Eight years' observations at a golden eagle eyrie, part II; Eight years' observations at a golden eagles' eyrie, part III, seasons 1952-3; Pleasures of eagle watching; The golden eagle abroad.