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041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Lockley, Ronald
245 1 0 $a Letters from Skokholm / $c illustrated by Charles Tunnicliffe
250 # # $a 1st edition
260 # # $a London $b J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. $c 1947
300 # # $a ix., 243 p. : $b ill. ; $c 22 cm.
520 2 # $a When R.M. Lockley settled on Skokholm, an uninhabited island off the Pembrokeshire coast, he was 24 years old. It was a boyhood dream to be with birds and flowers in some remote place', to live like Robinson Crusoe. But when war broke out in September 1939, this dream island life had to be abandoned. Knowing he may never return, Lockley began writing about the history and wildlife of his beloved island. He sent what he wrote to his friend and brother-in-law John Buxton - a naturalist captured by the Germans in Norway in 1940. These letters to a prisoner-of-war, intended to solace Buxton in his captivity, became Letters from Skokholm.
563 # # $a Blue boards with a design (bird on surface of water) in gilt on the upper board. Title, author and publisher in gilt on the spine.
653 # # $a Natural history — Wales — Skokholm Island
653 # # $a Birds — Wales — Skokholm Island
700 1 # $a Tunnicliffe, Charles $e illustrator
710 2 # $a J.M. Dent and Company $e publisher
710 2 # $a The Temple Press $e printer