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Identifier: woodlandfieldsho00pike
Title: Woodland, field and shore : wild nature depicted with pen and camera
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Pike, Oliver G. (Oliver Gregory), b. 1877
Subjects: Birds Natural history Wildlife photography
Publisher: London : Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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ething of anachievement, since this harrier is only an occasional visitor to England. InBird-Land is a charming book ; we hope Mr. Pike is still getting up before thesun and standing about in the rain, so that he may soon give us another like it. THE CITY PRESS. Beyond all question this is one of the most charming works of its class thatwe have had the fortune to meet with for a long while, its author is a true loverof bird life, and has for years made a study of the habits of the feathered songstersthat are more or less familiar to all of us. In addition, he is gifted with a facilepen, and his pages give us a glimpse of natural history that is only seldom to beenjoyed. THE ECHO. This is really one of the most delightful books that we have read for many aday—a book that ro lover of the throbbing and melodious life of field and woodlandcould resist, having once dipped into its paees. London: T. FISHER UNWIN, Paternoster Square, E.G. Advertisements of Interest to Bird Phototirapfiers.
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The Ideal Camera for the Naturalist. Mr. OLIVER PIKE, the Author of this book, says that lie hasoblamed perfect negatives of birds flying with the GOERZ- flgscMtz Fotdliig faniera Which will be found unrivalled for Naturalists work. It is light, compact, and ofsmall bulk ; it is fitted with the C<ioerz Double Auaf^figiiiat, the finest ofniodeiii lenses, and a focal plane shutter, giving up to 1/lUOOtIi of second exposures. The altering of the slit of the shutter requires neither skill nor practice, it is a moments work—a point ofvital importance, not only to the naturalist,but to every one who has to be continuallychanging the speeds of his shutter, andhas to take a number of photographs inquick succession. The Goekz-Anschutz Folding Camerais not limited to one kind of work only.It has every requisite movement, can besupplied with Double Extension, and is asefficient for all ordinary work—landscapes,seascapes, portraiture, architectural andinterior work—as for the fastest ins
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