The Island

Near fine hardcover in mylar protected unclipped dust jacket. Jacket design and black-and-white illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe. 

The island is Skokholm, tiny and remote, off the wild coast of Pembrokeshire. It was there that Ronald Lockley went as a young man, to study the tens of thousands of wild creatures that lived 'within the compass of one small plot of land surrounded by the sea'.

It is the birds that are at the centre of this book: 80,000 breeding birds on a mere 240 acres. These thousands of shearwaters, puffins, guillemots, and petrels, filling every available crevice and burrow were Mr. Lockley's constant study.