The Pageant of Nature: British Wild Life and its Wonders

Abstract

THE avowed object of this new publication is to provide the libretto to the play of Nature in Britain, and, by describing in clear and accurate language the varied phenomena which can be observed at all seasons of the year during almost any country ramble, to stimulate observation, to foster a love of Nature and, perhaps, to spur on to further independent discovery the keener and more gifted of its readers. It is, essentially a book of Nature study, of observation in the field, of animals and plants in their natural surroundings. All the authors who have contributed to its pages-and there are no fewer than twenty in the three parts under notice-are well known for their admirable first-hand studies of wild Nature, in one or other of its many branches, with eye, field-glass, and camera and, may we add, with pen, and their articles are illustrated with original photographs taken either by themselves or by other equally skilled and enthusiastic Nature photographers.

The Pageant of Nature: British Wild Life and its Wonders.

Edited by Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell. (Complete in about 36 fortnightly parts.) Part 1. Pp. 72. Part 2. Pp. 73–144. Part 3. Pp. 145–216. (London: Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1923.) 1s. 3d. net each part.